Benjamin Louis Cardin is an American lawyer and former politician who served as a United States senator from Maryland from 2007 to 2025. A member of the Democratic Party, he was the U.S. representativ
Official portrait, 2024
Cardin in the University of Pittsburgh yearbook, 1964
On the floor of the House on June 12, 2006, Representative Cardin calling for the withdrawal of all troops from Iraq by 2007
Cardin (at podium) joining fellow Representatives Roscoe Bartlett (center; R-MD) and Jo Ann Davis (left; R-VA) in calling for a study of homeland security needs of the National Capital region, including Maryland, Virginia and the District of Columbia
Paul Spyros Sarbanes was an American politician and attorney from Maryland. A member of the Democratic Party, he served in both chambers of the United States Congress as a member of the United States
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…and as its speaker from 1979 to 1987. In 58 years as an elected official, Cardin never lost an election. Cardin was elected as U.S. senator to succeed Paul Sarbanes in 2006, defeating Republican Michael Steele, the lieutenant governor of Maryland. He became Maryland's senior U.S. senator on January 3, 2017, upon…
Paul Sarbanes, official color photo
Sarbanes in the Princeton University yearbook, 1954
Sarbanes (center) with President Bill Clinton (his left) and Representative Elijah Cummings at the Morgan State University graduation in May 1997
Before signing the Sarbanes–Oxley Act on July 30, 2002, President George W. Bush (right) met with Senator Sarbanes (left), Secretary of Labor Elaine Chao and other dignitaries in the Blue Room of the White House.