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{{Short description|American politician and attorney (1933–2020)}}
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{{Infobox officeholder
| name            = Paul Sarbanes
| image           = Paul Sarbanes, official color photo.jpg
| office1         = Chair of the [[United States Senate Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs|Senate Banking Committee]]
| term_start1     = January 3, 2001
| term_end1       = January 20, 2001
| predecessor1    = Phil Gramm
| successor1      = Phil Gramm
| term_start2     = June 6, 2001
| term_end2       = January 3, 2003
| predecessor2    = [[Phil Gramm]]
| successor2      = [[Richard Shelby]]
| jr/sr           = United States Senator
| state           = [[Maryland]]
| term_start      = January 3, 1977
| term_end        = January 3, 2007
| predecessor     = [[J. Glenn Beall Jr.]]
| successor       = [[Ben Cardin]]
| office3         = Member of the{{br}}[[United States House of Representatives|U.S. House of Representatives]]{{br}}from [[Maryland]]
| constituency3   = {{ushr|MD|4|4th district}} (1971–1973){{br}}{{ushr|MD|3|3rd district}} (1973–1977)
| term_start3     = January 3, 1971
| term_end3       = January 3, 1977
| predecessor3    = [[George Hyde Fallon]]
| successor3      = [[Barbara Mikulski]]
| state_delegate4 = Maryland
| district4       = 2nd
| term_start4     = January 18, 1967
| term_end4       = January 13, 1971
| predecessor4    =
| successor4      =
| birth_name      = Paul Spyros Sarbanes
| birth_date      = {{birth date|1933|02|03}}
| birth_place     = [[Salisbury, Maryland]], U.S.
| death_date      = {{death date and age|2020|12|06|1933|02|03}}
| death_place     = [[Baltimore]], Maryland, U.S.
| party           = [[Democratic Party (United States)|Democratic]]
| spouse          = {{marriage|Christine Dunbar|1960|2009|end=died}}
| children        = 3, including [[John Sarbanes|John]]
| education       = [[Princeton University]] ([[Bachelor of Arts|BA]]){{br}}[[Balliol College, Oxford]] ([[Bachelor of Arts|BA]]){{br}}[[Harvard University]] ([[Bachelor of Laws|LLB]])
| signature       = Paul Sarbanes signature.gif
| module          = {{Listen|pos=center|embed=yes|filename=Sen. Paul Sarbanes on the 1st Day of the Iran-Contra Hearings.ogg|title=Sarbanes's voice|type=speech|description=Sarbanes delivers his opening statement on the first day of the [[Congressional committees investigating the Iran–Contra affair|Iran–Contra hearings]]{{br}}Recorded May 5, 1987}}
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'''Paul Spyros Sarbanes''' ({{IPAc-en|ˈ|s|ɑr|b|eɪ|n|z}}; February 3, 1933{{snd}}December 6, 2020) was an American politician and attorney from [[Maryland]]. A member of the [[Democratic Party (United States)|Democratic Party]], he served in both chambers of the [[United States Congress]] as a member of the [[United States House of Representatives]] from 1971 to 1977 and as a member of the [[United States Senate]] from 1977 to 2007. Sarbanes was the longest-serving senator in the history of Maryland until he was surpassed by [[Barbara Mikulski]] by a single day when her term ended on January 3, 2017.{{efn|name=leap day|Both Sarbanes and Mikulski served five terms (thirty years) in the Senate. However, due to a differing number of [[leap day]]s over their tenures, Mikulski finished with 10,958 days of Senate service, to Sarbanes's 10,957 days.}} He was the first [[Greek Americans|Greek American]] senator.{{fact|date=October 2025}}

Born in [[Salisbury, Maryland]], Sarbanes was a graduate of [[Princeton University]]; [[Balliol College, Oxford]]; and [[Harvard Law School]]. Elected to the [[Maryland House of Delegates]] in 1966, he went on to serve two terms in the Maryland House from 1967 to 1971. In 1970 he won a seat in the United States House of Representatives, representing [[Maryland's 4th congressional district]] and later [[Maryland's 3rd congressional district]] from 1971 to 1977.

[[1976 United States Senate election in Maryland|In 1976]] he ran for the United States Senate, defeating [[Republican Party (United States)|Republican]] incumbent [[J. Glenn Beall Jr.]] with 59% of the vote. Sarbanes was re-elected four times, each time receiving no less than 59% of the vote. He did not seek re-election in 2006, when he was succeeded by fellow Democrat [[Ben Cardin]]. Sarbanes was known for his low-key style,<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A28241-2005Mar11.html|title =Cerebral Sarbanes Aloof to Limelight|work =washingtonpost.com|author =Charles Babington|date =March 12, 2005}}</ref> often shunning the limelight over his thirty-year Senate career. He was a coauthor of the [[Sarbanes–Oxley Act]], which is generally noted as his most noteworthy piece of legislation.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://usatoday30.usatoday.com/money/companies/regulation/2007-07-30-sarbanes-oxley-men_N.htm|title=The men behind the Sarbanes–Oxley Act|publisher=usatoday.com|author=Greg Farrell|date=July 30, 2007}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.fraud-magazine.com/article.aspx?id=442|title =An Interview with Sen. Paul S. Sarbanes Sarbanes–Oxley Act Revisited|author=Dick Carozza|publisher=fraud-magazine.com}}</ref>

==Early life==
Sarbanes was born on [[Eastern Shore of Maryland|Maryland's Eastern Shore]] in the city of [[Salisbury, Maryland|Salisbury]] to [[Greek immigrants to America|Greek immigrant]] parents, Matina (née Tsigounis) and Spyros P. Sarbanes, who had emigrated from [[Laconia]], Greece and owned a Salisbury restaurant.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.cc.nih.gov/ccc/crc/pdf/sarbanes_bio.pdf|title=Paul S. Sarbanes, U. S. Senator (bio)|publisher=[[National Institutes of Health]]|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100528074116/http://www.cc.nih.gov//ccc/crc/pdf/sarbanes_bio.pdf|archive-date=May 28, 2010}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.ekathimerini.com/259977/article/ekathimerini/community/paul-sarbanes-greek-american-senator-dies-at-87|title=Paul Sarbanes, Greek-American Senator, dies at 87|publisher=Elathimerini|access-date=December 7, 2020}}</ref>

A graduate of [[Wicomico High School]] in [[Salisbury, Maryland]], Sarbanes attended [[Princeton University]], where he played basketball<ref>{{Cite magazine|last=McPhee|first=John|date=2023-10-09|title=Under the Carpetbag|language=en-US|magazine=The New Yorker|url=https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2023/10/16/under-the-carpetbag|access-date=2023-12-17|issn=0028-792X}}</ref> and earned a [[bachelor's degree]] in 1954<ref>{{Cite web|last=Stevens|first=Ruth|date=November 16, 2006|title=Sarbanes and Coles to Be Honored with Alumni Awards|url=https://www.princeton.edu/news/2006/11/16/sarbanes-and-coles-be-honored-alumni-awards|access-date=December 17, 2023|website=Princeton University News|language=en-US}}</ref> from the [[Princeton School of Public and International Affairs]] after completing a senior thesis titled "The [[Smith Act]]: A Denial of American Freedoms".<ref>{{cite thesis|type=bachelor's|last=Sarbanes|first=Paul Spyros|date=1954|url=https://catalog.princeton.edu/catalog/dsp010r967451m|title=The Smith Act: A Denial of American Freedoms|publisher=Princeton University}}</ref> At Princeton, Sarbanes was a member of the [[American Whig–Cliosophic Society]]. As a senior, he received the Moses Taylor Pyne Honor Prize, Princeton's highest undergraduate honor.<ref>{{Cite web|date=February 23, 1954|title=Sophs receive study honors|url=https://theprince.princeton.edu/princetonperiodicals/?a=d&d=Princetonian19540223-01|access-date=October 14, 2020|website=The Daily Princetonian}}</ref> He also was awarded a [[Rhodes Scholarship]] that brought him to [[Balliol College, Oxford|Balliol College]] of the [[University of Oxford]] in [[Oxford]], England.<ref name=WPO>{{cite news|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/obituaries/2020/12/07/a31ca0ac-385a-11eb-bc68-96af0daae728_story.html|title=Paul Sarbanes, senator from Maryland who led overhaul of corporate accounting rules, dies at 87|newspaper=[[The Washington Post]]|date=December 6, 2020}}</ref> He graduated with a First Class degree in 1957.<ref name=WPO/> Sarbanes then returned to the United States and attended [[Harvard Law School]].<ref name=reuters>{{cite web|url=https://www.reuters.com/article/us-people-john-sarbanes/former-u-s-senator-and-anti-fraud-law-co-sponsor-paul-sarbanes-dies-at-87-idUSKBN28H0RD|title=Former U.S. Senator and anti-fraud law co-sponsor Paul Sarbanes dies at 87|publisher=Reuters|access-date=December 6, 2020}}</ref>

After graduating in 1960, he clerked for Federal Judge [[Morris Ames Soper]] before entering private practice with two [[Baltimore]] law firms.<ref name=WPO/>

==Political career==
===State legislature===
In 1966 Sarbanes ran for the [[Maryland House of Delegates]] in [[Baltimore]] and won.<ref name=bso>{{cite web|url=https://www.baltimoresun.com/politics/bs-md-paul-sarbanes-20201207-joygkdwykrfb3ehld72brkx7e4-story.html|title=Paul Sarbanes, longtime U.S. senator from Maryland who championed protection of Chesapeake Bay, dies at 87|publisher=Baltimore Sun|date=December 6, 2020}}</ref> During his four years as a State delegate in [[Annapolis, Maryland]] he served on both the Judiciary and the Ways and Means Committees.<ref name=mdmanual/>

===U.S. House of Representatives===
Sarbanes was elected to the [[United States House of Representatives]] in 1970 from the [[Maryland's 4th congressional district|fourth district]] of Maryland and was reelected in 1972 and 1974 from the [[Maryland's 3rd congressional district|third district]].<ref name=WPO/> While in the House, Sarbanes served on the [[United States House Committee on the Judiciary|Judiciary Committee]], the [[United States House Committee on Merchant Marine and Fisheries|Merchant Marine and Fisheries Committee]], and the [[United States House Committee on Oversight and Reform|Select Committee on House Reorganization]].<ref name=mdmanual />

As a member of the Judiciary Committee he participated in the [[impeachment process against Richard Nixon]].<ref name=WPO/> On July 26, 1974, he introduced the first [[Article of impeachment|articles]] of [[Federal impeachment in the United States|impeachment]] against President [[Richard Nixon|Nixon]] for [[obstruction of justice]].<ref>{{Cite news|title=How a Fragile Centrist Bloc Emerged As House Panel Weighed Impeachment|last=Naughton|first=James M.|others=Based on reporting by the author, R. W. Apple. Jr., Diane Henry, Marjorie Hunter and David E. Rosenbaum|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1974/08/05/archives/how-a-fragile-centrist-bloc-emerged-as-house-panel-weighed.html|date=August 5, 1974|page=49|newspaper=The New York Times|access-date=January 11, 2020}}</ref>
[[File:Bill Clinton, Paul Sarbanes, and Elijah Cummings attend the Morgan State University graduation.jpg|thumb|upright|Sarbanes (center) with President [[Bill Clinton]] (his left) and Representative [[Elijah Cummings]] at the [[Morgan State University]] graduation in May 1997]]
[[File:President George W. Bush meets with Senator Paul Sarbanes and Secretary of Labor Elaine Chao.jpg|thumb|upright|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]].]]
[[File:Paul Sarbanes.jpg|thumb|upright|An earlier photograph of Senator Sarbanes]]

===U.S. Senate===
Sarbanes was elected to the [[United States Senate]] in 1976 and re-elected in 1982, 1988, 1994, and 2000.<ref name=WPO/><ref name=bso/> In 2002 he was the United States Senate sponsor of the [[Sarbanes–Oxley Act]] of 2002, which reformed federal securities laws in the wake of the 2002 [[accounting scandals]].<ref name=bso/>

Sarbanes served on the following [[List of U.S. Senate committees|Senate committees]]:<ref name=mdmanual/>
*Ranking Member, [[United States Senate Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs|Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs]]
*Ranking Member, [[United States Senate Whitewater Committee|Special Whitewater]]
*Senior Member, [[United States Senate Committee on Foreign Relations|Foreign Relations]]
*Senior Member, [[United States Senate Committee on the Budget|Budget]]
*Senior Member, [[United States Congressional Joint Economic Committee|Joint Economic]]

By 1981 Sarbanes had become noted as a frequent critic of military budgets.<ref name=NYT1/> In spite of this, in May of that year he voted in favor of approving a [[Reagan administration]]-backed $136.5{{nbs}}billion military authorization bill.<ref name=NYT1>{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1981/05/15/us/senate-votes-military-funds-in-victory-for-reagan.html|title=Senate Votes Military Funds in Victory for Reagan|date=May 15, 1981|work=New York Times}}</ref> In December he voted in favor<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.upi.com/Archives/1981/12/03/The-90-4-vote-by-which-the-Senate-approved-the/2840376203600/|title=The 90–4 vote by which the Senate approved the ...|date=December 3, 1981|publisher=UPI}}</ref> of an amendment to President [[Ronald Reagan]]'s [[MX missiles]] proposal that would divert the silo system by $334{{nbs}}million as well as earmark further research for other methods that would allow giant missiles to be based.<ref name=MX1 /> While the military authorization bill was seen as supporting the administration,<ref name=NYT1 /> the December vote was viewed as a rebuff of Reagan.<ref name=MX1>{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1981/12/03/us/senators-reject-plan-for-placing-mx-missile-in-silos.html|title=Senators Reject Plan for Placing MX Missile in Silos|first=Steven V.|last=Roberts|date=December 3, 1981|work=New York Times}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.csmonitor.com/1981/1204/120455.html|title=Reagan scorns Senate rejection of silo-based MX missile plan|first=Stephen|last=Webbe|publisher=The Christian Science Monitor|date=December 4, 1981}}</ref>

On March 11, 2005, Sarbanes, the longest-serving senator in Maryland history, announced at a news conference his decision not to seek reelection in 2006.<ref>{{cite news|last=Kirkpatrick|first=David K.|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2005/03/12/politics/12sarbanes.html|title=Senator Sarbanes, Maryland Democrat, Will Retire in '06|newspaper=[[The New York Times]]|date=March 12, 2005}}</ref> Colleagues of Sarbanes said that the reason for his retirement from the Senate was due to his annoyance with not having any leadership roles on committees.<ref>{{cite news|last1=Kirkpatrick|first1=David|title=Senator Sarbanes, Maryland Democrat, Will Retire in '06|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2005/03/12/politics/12sarbanes.html?module=Search&mabReward=relbias%3Ar%2C%7B%221%22%3A%22RI%3A7%22%7D|access-date=October 8, 2014|work=New York Times|date=March 12, 2005}}</ref>

Sarbanes received the Foreign Language Advocacy Award in 2007 from the Northeast Conference on the Teaching of Foreign Languages in recognition of his lifelong commitment to the values, languages, and cultures of the ancient world in service to the modern world.<ref>{{cite web|title=The James W. Dodge Foreign Language Advocate Award|url=http://www.nectfl.org/awards-james-w-dodge-foreign-language-advocate-award|publisher=Northeast Conference on the Teaching of Foreign Languages|access-date=August 28, 2014|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140821193635/http://www.nectfl.org/awards-james-w-dodge-foreign-language-advocate-award|archive-date=August 21, 2014}}</ref>
==Personal life and death==
In June 1960 Sarbanes married Christine Dunbar of [[Brighton]], England; they had three children ([[John Sarbanes]], Michael Anthony Sarbanes, and [[Janet Sarbanes|Janet Matina Sarbanes]]) and seven grandchildren.<ref name=WPO/> Christine Sarbanes died of cancer on March 22, 2009.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.baltimoresun.com/news/bs-xpm-2009-03-24-0903230090-story.html|title=Christine Sarbanes|date=March 24, 2009|access-date=December 6, 2020|publisher=Baltimore Sun}}</ref> Sarbanes held the highest lay office in the [[Greek Orthodox Church]], "Order of St. Andrew, Archon of the Ecumenical Patriarchate"<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.archons.org/news/detail.asp?id=274|title=Archbishop Demetrios presides at Investiture of Twenty-Two New Archons &#124; Order of Saint Andrew the Apostle – Archons of the Ecumenical Patriarchate|publisher=Archons.org|date=October 26, 2008|access-date=August 11, 2013|archive-date=March 4, 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304043308/http://www.archons.org/news/detail.asp?id=274|url-status=dead}}</ref> and was a member of the [[Greek Orthodox Cathedral of the Annunciation (Baltimore, Maryland)|Greek Orthodox Cathedral of the Annunciation]] in Baltimore.<ref name="mdmanual">{{cite web |title=PAUL SPYROS SARBANES, Esq. (Democrat) (1933-2020): U.S. Senator from Maryland, 1977-2007 |url=https://msa.maryland.gov/msa/mdmanual/39fed/05ussen/former/html/msa02169.html |access-date=August 13, 2025 |website=Maryland Manual On-Line |publisher=Maryland State Archives}}</ref>

His son, John Sarbanes, won the general election for [[Maryland's 3rd congressional district]] in 2006, the district that Paul Sarbanes represented prior to his election as senator.<ref name=bso/>

Paul Sarbanes died at his home in Baltimore on December 6, 2020, at the age of 87.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-12-07/paul-sarbanes-senator-who-co-wrote-anti-fraud-law-dies-at-87|title=Paul Sarbanes, U.S. Senator Who Co-Wrote Anti-Fraud Law, Dies at 87|work = [[Bloomberg News]]|access-date=December 6, 2020|date=December 6, 2020|url-access = subscription}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|url = https://www.npr.org/2020/12/08/944198975/paul-sarbanes-longtime-maryland-senator-and-financial-reformer-dies-at-87|title = Paul Sarbanes, Longtime Senator From Maryland And Financial Reformer, Dies At 87|work = [[NPR]]|date = December 8, 2020|accessdate = April 22, 2022|last = Dwyer|first = Colin}}</ref>

In April 2021 Wicomico Public Libraries announced that the library in downtown Salisbury would be renamed after Sarbanes.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://mdcoastdispatch.com/2021/04/08/library-branch-renaming-planned/|title=Library Branch Renaming Planned|last=Hooper|first=Bethany|publisher=The Dispatch|access-date=October 28, 2021|date=April 8, 2021}}</ref>

==Election history==
*Sources:<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.govtrack.us/congress/members/paul_sarbanes/300086|title=Sen. Paul Sarbanes|publisher=Gov Track.us|access-date=December 7, 2020}}</ref><ref name=WPO/><ref name=bso/><ref>{{cite web|url=https://iop.harvard.edu/fellows/paul-s-sarbanes|title=Paul S. Sarbanes|publisher=[[Harvard University]]|access-date=December 6, 2020}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://bioguideretro.congress.gov/Home/MemberDetails?memIndex=s000064|title=SARBANES, Paul Spyros (1933-)|publisher=Bio Guide Retro|access-date=December 6, 2020}}</ref>
{| class=wikitable
|- valign=bottom
! Year
! Office sought
! Election
! rowspan=99|
! Subject
! Party
! Votes
! %
! rowspan=99|
! Opponent
! Party
! Votes
! %
|-
| [[United States House election, 1970|1970]]
| {{ushr|Maryland|4}}
|General
| {{party shading/Democratic}}|'''Paul Sarbanes'''
| {{party shading/Democratic}}|[[Democratic Party (United States)|Democratic]]
| {{party shading/Democratic}} align=right|93,093
| {{party shading/Democratic}}|69.7%
| {{party shading/Republican}}|David Fentress
| {{party shading/Republican}}|[[Republican Party (United States)|Republican]]
| {{party shading/Republican}} align=right|40,442
| {{party shading/Republican}}|30.3%
|-
| [[United States House election, 1972|1972]]
| {{ushr|Maryland|3}}
|General
| {{party shading/Democratic}}|'''Paul Sarbanes'''
| {{party shading/Democratic}}|[[Democratic Party (United States)|Democratic]]
| {{party shading/Democratic}} align=right|93,218
| {{party shading/Democratic}}|83.8%
| {{party shading/Republican}}|[[William Matthews (Maryland politician)|William Matthews]]
| {{party shading/Republican}}|[[Republican Party (United States)|Republican]]
| {{party shading/Republican}} align=right|17,967
| {{party shading/Republican}}|16.2%
|-
| [[United States House election, 1974|1974]]
| {{ushr|Maryland|3}}
|General
| {{party shading/Democratic}}|'''Paul Sarbanes'''
| {{party shading/Democratic}}|[[Democratic Party (United States)|Democratic]]
| {{party shading/Democratic}} align=right|54,936
| {{party shading/Democratic}}|70.1%
| {{party shading/Republican}}|William H. Mathews
| {{party shading/Republican}}|[[Republican Party (United States)|Republican]]
| {{party shading/Republican}} align=right|23,491
| {{party shading/Republican}}|29.9%
|-
| [[United States Senate election in Maryland, 1976|1976]]
| [[List of United States Senators from Maryland|U.S. Senator, Class 1]]
|General
| {{party shading/Democratic}}|'''Paul Sarbanes'''
| {{party shading/Democratic}}|[[Democratic Party (United States)|Democratic]]
| {{party shading/Democratic}} align=right|772,101
| {{party shading/Democratic}}|59.3%
| {{party shading/Republican}}|[[John Glenn Beall, Jr.]] (incumbent)
| {{party shading/Republican}}|[[Republican Party (United States)|Republican]]
| {{party shading/Republican}} align=right|530,439
| {{party shading/Republican}}|40.7%
|-
| [[United States Senate election in Maryland, 1982|1982]]
| [[List of United States Senators from Maryland|U.S. Senator, Class 1]]
|General
| {{party shading/Democratic}}|'''Paul Sarbanes'''
| {{party shading/Democratic}}|[[Democratic Party (United States)|Democratic]]
| {{party shading/Democratic}} align=right|707,356
| {{party shading/Democratic}}|63.5%
| {{party shading/Republican}}|[[Lawrence Hogan]]
| {{party shading/Republican}}|[[Republican Party (United States)|Republican]]
| {{party shading/Republican}} align=right|407,334
| {{party shading/Republican}}|36.5%
|-
| [[United States Senate election in Maryland, 1988|1988]]
| [[List of United States Senators from Maryland|U.S. Senator, Class 1]]
|General
| {{party shading/Democratic}}|'''Paul Sarbanes'''
| {{party shading/Democratic}}|[[Democratic Party (United States)|Democratic]]
| {{party shading/Democratic}} align=right|999,166
| {{party shading/Democratic}}|61.8%
| {{party shading/Republican}}|[[Alan Keyes]]
| {{party shading/Republican}}|[[Republican Party (United States)|Republican]]
| {{party shading/Republican}} align=right|617,537
| {{party shading/Republican}}|38.2%
|-
| [[United States Senate election in Maryland, 1994|1994]]
| [[List of United States Senators from Maryland|U.S. Senator, Class 1]]
|General
| {{party shading/Democratic}}|'''Paul Sarbanes'''
| {{party shading/Democratic}}|[[Democratic Party (United States)|Democratic]]
| {{party shading/Democratic}} align=right|809,125
| {{party shading/Democratic}}|59.1%
| {{party shading/Republican}}|[[Bill Brock]]
| {{party shading/Republican}}|[[Republican Party (United States)|Republican]]
| {{party shading/Republican}} align=right|559,908
| {{party shading/Republican}}|40.9%
|-
| [[United States Senate election in Maryland, 2000|2000]]
| [[List of United States Senators from Maryland|U.S. Senator, Class 1]]
|General
| {{party shading/Democratic}}|'''Paul Sarbanes'''
| {{party shading/Democratic}}|[[Democratic Party (United States)|Democratic]]
| {{party shading/Democratic}} align=right|1,230,013
| {{party shading/Democratic}}|63.2%
| {{party shading/Republican}}|Paul Rappaport
| {{party shading/Republican}}|[[Republican Party (United States)|Republican]]
| {{party shading/Republican}} align=right|715,178
| {{party shading/Republican}}|36.8%
|}

==Publications==
*[http://dmr.bsu.edu/cdm4/document.php?CISOROOT=/BSUPrvstLec&CISOPTR=778&REC=20 "The premise of the U. S. Constitutional system", Perspectives on culture and society, vol. 1 (1988), 119–126]

==Notes and references==
{{Notelist}}
{{Reflist}}

==External links==
{{Biographical Directory of Congress|S000064}}
*{{C-SPAN|356}}

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