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OFFICIAL BIOGRAPHIES

PARRIS N. GLENDENING
Governor of Maryland
(Democrat)

PARRIS N. GLENDENING, Governor of Maryland since 1995. Member, Hyattsville City Council,
1973-74. Member, Prince George's County Council, 1974-82 (chair, 1979-81). County Executive,
Prince George's County, 1982-94. Member, Chesapeake Bay Critical Area Commission, 1984-94;
Advisory Commission on Federal-State-Local Relations, 1987-94. Board of Visitors, School of Public
Affairs, University of Maryland College Park. Born in Bronx, New York, June 11, 1942. Junior College of
Broward County, Ft. Lauderdale, Florida, A.A., 1962; Florida State University, B.A. (political science),
1964, M.A. (political science), 1965, Ph.D. (political science), 1967. Associate Professor of Government and
Politics, University of Maryland College Park. Member, Taxation and Finance Steering Committee (1984-87)
and Vice-Chair, Intergovernmental Relations Policy Steering Committee (1987-88) of National Association
of Counties. President, Maryland Association of Counties, 1987-88. Trustee Council, YMCA of Metropolitan
Washington, 1988—. Past president, National Council of Elected County Executives. Member, Professional
Ethics Committee, American Society for Public Administrators, 1989-90. Member, Professional Society Ethics
Group, American Association for the Advancement of Science. Co-author, Controversies of State and Local
Political Systems (1972), and Pragmatic Federalism (1984), a textbook used in over 400 colleges and
universities. Recipient of annual award for distinguished contributions to the practice and study of
government, Washington Chapter, American Political Science Association, 1985.