Marvin Mandel
| Marvin Mandel | |
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| 56th Governor of Maryland | |
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In office January 7, 1969 – January 17, 1979* |
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| Lieutenant | Blair Lee III |
| Preceded by | Spiro Agnew |
| Succeeded by | Harry Hughes |
| Chair of the National Governors Association | |
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In office June 7, 1972 – June 6, 1973 |
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| Preceded by | Arch A. Moore Jr. |
| Succeeded by | Daniel J. Evans |
| Speaker of the Maryland House of Delegates | |
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In office February 1964 – January 1969 |
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| Preceded by | A. Gordon Boone |
| Succeeded by | Thomas Hunter Lowe |
| Personal details | |
| Born |
April 19, 1920 Baltimore, Maryland, U.S. |
| Died | August 30, 2015 (aged 95) Compton, Maryland, U.S. |
| Political party | Democratic |
| Spouse(s) | Barbara Oberfeld (1941–1974) Jeanne Blackistone Dorsey (1974–2001) |
| Education |
University of Maryland, College Park (BA) University of Maryland, Baltimore (LLB) |
| *Blair Lee III served as Acting Governor from June 4, 1977 – January 15, 1979 | |
Marvin Mandel (April 19, 1920 – August 30, 2015) was an American politician and lawyer. Mandel served as the 56th Governor of Maryland from January 7, 1969 to January 17, 1979, including a one-and-a-half-year period when Lt. Governor Blair Lee III served as the state's acting Governor in Mandel's place from June 1977 to January 15, 1979. He was a member of the Democratic Party, as well as Maryland's first, and (to date) only, Governor of the Jewish faith.
Before he became the state's Governor, Mandel had been Speaker of the Maryland House of Delegates from 1964 to 1969 and a delegate since 1952.
Mandel was elected as Governor of Maryland on January 7, 1969 by the joint vote of both houses of the Maryland General Assembly due to the approaching vacancy created by the election of Spiro T. Agnew, the incumbent governor, as Vice President of the United States, as there was no Lieutenant Governor to succeed to the governorship, as in most other states. Such an office was created by amendment in 1970.
Mandel was born in Baltimore, Maryland, and attended the Baltimore City Public Schools, graduating from the The Baltimore City College, which was a city-wide, all-male institution that served as an early model of a college prep, specialized "magnet" school that developed and became popular in American public education forty years later. Mandel received a Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of Maryland at College Park in 1939 and a Bachelor of Laws degree from the University of Maryland Law School in 1942.
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