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SAMUEL C. LINTON, Democrat, District 28, Charles County.

Member of House of Delegates, 1958-66, 1983-90, and since 1995. Member, Ways and Means Committee, 1995- (finance resources subcommittee); Joint Audit Committee (formerly Budget and Audit Committee), 1987-90, 1995-. Past member, Appropriations Committee (law enforcement & transportation subcommittee); Joint Legislative Committee on the MED-EVAC Program, 1986-90; Joint Committee on State Economic Development Initiatives, 1995-96. Chair, Charles County Delegation, 1995-.

Member, Economic Development Commission, Charles County, three years; Sanitary Commission, Charles County, one year. Member, Maryland Constitutional Convention, 1967-68; Interstate Commission on the Potomac River Basin, 1968-80. First chair, Maryland Agricultural Land Preservation Foundation, 1977-82. Member, Tri-County Council for Southern Maryland, 1995-.

Born in Riverside, Maryland, August 21, 1923. Attended Nanjemoy High School; Charles County Community College; Armed Forces Institute, 1944-45. Staff sergeant, U.S. Army Air Force, 1943-46; served in England, Belgium, Iceland, and Germany. Owner and operator of Linton Lumber Company and Holly Springs Farm, Inc. First president, Nanjemoy Volunteer Fire Department. Master of local Grange. Director, Farm Bureau. Director, Southern States Cooperative. Member, American Legion, Hughesville; Waldorf Post, Veterans of Foreign Wars (VFW); Charles County Historical Society. Past president, Society for the Restoration of Port Tobacco. Member, Vestry, Old Durham Episcopal Church. Married; five children.

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