Marvin Mandel, a member of the Democratic Party, was the 56th Governor of Maryland in the United States from January 7, 1969, to January 17, 1979. He was Maryland's first, and to date, only Governor of the Jewish faith. He was previously, a long-time member/delegate of the lower chamber, the House of Delegates in the General Assembly of Maryland, the third oldest state legislature in America in the "Original Thirteen Colonies/States", from 1952 to 1969, and served as Speaker of the Maryland House of Delegates from 1963 to 1969. Mandel was elected as the 56th Governor of Maryland on January 7, 1969, by the joint vote of both houses of the Maryland Assembly to succeed the previous Republican occupant Spiro T. Agnew, who had been selected by presidential candidate Richard M. Nixon at the 1968 Republican National Convention in Miami, Florida in August 1968 to be his vice-presidential running mate in the U.S. Presidential Election of 1968. The Nixon-Agnew Republican ticket won the election and so Nixon was sworn in two weeks later at the U.S. 

April 19th, 1920 in Baltimore  /  Died:   Aug 30th, 2015