Ben Cardin

US Senator and former US Representative from Maryland Born in Baltimore, MD October 5, 1943; graduated from Baltimore City College, Baltimore, MD., 1961; B.A., University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA., 1964; J.D., University of Maryland, Baltimore, MD., 1967; lawyer, private practice; member of the Maryland state house of delegates, 1966-1986, speaker, 1979-1986; elected as a Democrat to the One Hundredth and to the nine succeeding Congresses (January 3, 1987-January 3, 2007); one of the managers appointed by the House of Representatives in 1989 to conduct the impeachment proceedings against Walter L. Nixon, judge of the United States District Court for the District Court of Mississippi; not a candidate for reelection to the House of Representatives but was elected as a Democrat to the United States Senate in 2006 for the term commencing January 3, 2007; reelected in 2012 for the term ending January 3, 2019.