David McBride
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| President pro tempore of the Delaware Senate | |
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Assumed office 2017 |
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| Preceded by | Patricia Blevins |
| Member of the Delaware Senate from the 13th district |
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Assumed office November 5, 1980 |
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| Preceded by | Francis J. Kearns |
| Member of the Delaware House of Representatives from the 15th district |
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In office November 7, 1978 – November 4, 1980 |
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| Preceded by | Robert L. Byrd |
| Succeeded by | John Campanelli |
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June 23, 1942 Wilmington, Delaware |
| Nationality | American |
| Political party | Democratic |
| Residence | New Castle, Delaware |
| Alma mater | University of Delaware |
David B. McBride (born June 23, 1942, in Wilmington, Delaware) is an American politician and has served continuously in Delaware's General Assembly since 1978. After two years in the House of Representatives, McBride was elected to the Delaware State Senate, where he began serving on November 5, 1980. McBride represents District 13, which includes the greater New Castle area. A Democrat, McBride was chosen unanimously as President Pro Tempore of the Senate on January 10, 2017.
McBride is a native of the Wilmington area, attending grade school at Richardson Park School from 1948 to 1957. He went on to attend Conrad High School, graduating in 1960.
After high school, McBride joined the U.S. Air Force. During his time in the service, he took various secondary courses, including:
In 1969, McBride returned to Delaware and enrolled at the University of Delaware. In 1972, he earned his BS in civil engineering from the University of Delaware. Then, in 1975, he earned his MS in civil engineering, also from the University of Delaware.
McBride was enlisted in the U.S. Air Force from 1961 through 1969, when he was honorably discharged as a Staff Sergeant. After being stationed in Texas and Alabama, he served in the Pacific, with stints in Okinawa and Tokyo in Japan, and one in Thailand.
After spending two years on the Conrad Area School Board, McBride ran for the State House where he served one term before being elected to the State Senate in 1980, where he has served for the past 34 years.
McBride is known as one of the hardest-working legislators in Dover, serving on a number of important committees. In 2012, he was elected as Senate Majority Leader by his Democratic colleagues. In 2017, he was selected as President Pro Tempore by a unanimous Senate vote.
During his career, he's made public health a priority. In 2001, he led the effort in the General Assembly to get the nation's most-restrictive statewide indoor smoking ban – the Clean Indoor Air Act – passed and signed into law. He also authored the 1983 Nurse Practice Act, a 1989 bill establishing telephone service for the hearing and speech impaired, the Delaware Prescription Assistance Program Act of 2000 and the Delaware Cancer Consortium Act of 2003.
McBride has also focused on energy and environmental issues, and he has chaired the Senate Natural Resources & Environmental Control Committee since 1992. He's credited with taking the lead on a 2000 bill that highly-restricts trash incineration in the First State, as well as for legislation passed a year later that increased penalties for chronic polluters. In 2010, he worked with Gov. Jack Markell on implementing a universal recycling throughout the state.
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