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Maryland's Political Families

By April Chan
Maryland Newsline
Friday, Nov. 18, 2005

Maryland’s governing history is peppered by familial ties.

1. Former Lt. Gov. Kathleen Kennedy Townsend can consider the late 10th duke of Devonshire a great-uncle thanks to which aunt? 

Rosemary Kennedy
Kathleen Agnes Kennedy
Patricia Kennedy
Jean Ann Kennedy

2. The father of which 2006 candidate for the 3rd Congressional District seat was instrumental in bringing about federal securities reforms in 2002?

Peter Beilenson
Paula Hollinger
John Sarbanes
Oz Bengur

3. True or False: Parts of Baltimore City and Baltimore County are being represented by two members from the same family at the state and federal levels.

True
False

4. Which 2006 gubernatorial candidate calls the state attorney general his father-in-law?

Doug Duncan
Martin O'Malley
Robert Ehrlich
Michael Steele

5. The father of which Maryland state delegate was recently indicted on 30 counts of federal racketeering, corruption and fraud charges?

Eric M. Bromwell
A. Wade Kach
Susan C. Lee
Michael L. Vaughn

6. Joseph D. Tydings served as U.S. senator from 1965 to 1971. His administration was sandwiched between the administrations of which father/son duo?

Paul Sarbanes and John Sarbanes
Meyer M. Cardin and Ben Cardin
James Glenn Beall and John Glenn Beall Jr.
Thomas O'Malley and Martin O'Malley

7. What former U.S. senator from Maryland needs only to venture to the John F. Kennedy Memorial Highway near the Susquehanna River or the University of Maryland campus in College Park for reminders of his father, who was also a U.S. senator?

Joseph D. Tydings
Charles Mathias Jr.
Daniel B. Brewster
John M. Butler

8. U.S. House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, a California Democrat, is the daughter of which former Baltimore mayor?

Thomas R. McKeldin
William D. Schaefer
Thomas L. J. D'Alessandro Jr.
Howard W. Jackson

9. Blair Lee III, who served as acting governor of Maryland from 1977 to 1979 after then-Gov. Marvin Mandel was convicted of mail fraud and racketeering, can trace his family origins in Maryland to what Washington, D.C., suburb?

Bethesda
Silver Spring
College Park
Beltsville

10. True or False: Though born in Baltimore, the founder of the Federal Bureau of Investigation is a descendant of the family of French emperor Napoleon I.

True
False


Copyright © 2005 University of Maryland Philip Merrill College of Journalism


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