Marvin Mandel

Marvin Mandel was an American politician and lawyer who 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 Jewish governor.

19 April 1920

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Born on the same birth day (19 April): Anne Glover (biologist) • Christoph Bach (musician) • Dudley Moore • Eliot Ness • James Franco • James Heckman • Jayne Mansfield • Jiroemon Kimura • Johann Wilhelm, Elector Palatine • Karl Tarvas • Kelly Olynyk • Ken Carpenter (discus thrower) • Maria Sharapova • Roger Sherman • Samuel C. Morrison Jr. • Simon Cowell (conservationist) • Sol Kaplan • Walter Stewart (journalist)

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