Paul Sarbanes
Paul Spyros Sarbanes (born February 3, 1933 in Salisbury, Maryland) is the senior United States Senator from Maryland. He is a member of the Democratic Party.
Born in Salisbury, Maryland, Sarbanes graduated from Princeton University in 1954. He attended Balliol College in Oxford, England, as a Rhodes Scholar from 1954-57. He graduated from Harvard Law School in 1960 and was admitted to the Maryland bar and commenced practice in Baltimore.
During the 1960s, Sarbanes was a lawyer who often worked with the Maryland state and Baltimore city governments. He was elected to the United States House of Representatives in 1970 and was reelected in 1972 and 1974. In 1976 he was elected to the senate and reelected in 1982, 1988, 1994 and 2000. In 2002, Sarbanes was the Senate sponsor of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002, which reformed federal securities laws in the wake of the 2002 corporate accounting scandals.