Paul Sarbanes

Paul Sarbanes

Paul Spyros Sarbanes was an American politician and attorney. He served as a member of the United States House of Representatives from 1971 to 1977 and as a United States Senator from 1977 to 2007. He was the longest-serving senator in Maryland history until he was surpassed by Barbara Mikulski by a single day when her term ended on January 3, 2017. He died of cancer in March 2011.

About Paul Sarbanes in brief

Summary Paul SarbanesPaul Spyros Sarbanes was an American politician and attorney. He served as a member of the United States House of Representatives from 1971 to 1977 and as a United States Senator from 1977 to 2007. He was the longest-serving senator in Maryland history until he was surpassed by Barbara Mikulski by a single day when her term ended on January 3, 2017. In 2002, he was the U.S. Senate sponsor of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002, which reformed federal securities laws in the wake of the 2002 accounting scandals.

He died of cancer in March 2011. He had three children and seven grandchildren. He is survived by his wife, Christine, and his three children’s spouses. He also had a daughter and a son-in-law who also served in the Senate. He lived in Maryland with his wife and three children. He has three grandchildren and seven great-grandchildren who he also had three great-great-granddaughters who he died with in March 2012. He never had any children of his own, but had two step-children.