[Congressional Record Volume 140, Number 56 (Tuesday, May 10, 1994)]
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[Congressional Record: May 10, 1994]
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  IN HONOR OF RETIRING MARYLAND STATE SENATOR FREDERICK C. MALKUS, JR.

 Ms. MIKULSKI. Mr. President, I rise today to honor Maryland 
Senator Frederick C. Malkus, Jr. on the occasion of his retirement. 
Senator Malkus has served in the Maryland State Legislature for 48 
years.
  I have known Senator Malkus for some time, and I know that his 
presence in Maryland politics will be sorely missed. He showed me what 
life on the Eastern Shore was all about. He let me know what people in 
his district needed and what their interests were. He taught me what a 
wetland was, which I will never forget. I was privileged to receive his 
endorsement in my Senate re-election campaign.
  Senator Malkus has contributed a lifetime of service to our great 
State of Maryland. He was born in Baltimore and raised in Dorchester 
County on Maryland's Eastern Shore. He attended Western Maryland 
College and the University of Maryland School of Law. After nobly 
serving his country through five campaigns in World War II, Senator 
Malkus returned to Maryland to make a home in his native Dorchester 
County. He then set about serving the county and State which had served 
him as a young man growing up.
  Senator Malkus was elected to the House of Delegates in 1946 and then 
to the Maryland Senate in 1950. He actively worked on behalf of the 
Eastern Shore, joining in the opening of the Chesapeake Bay Bridge and 
helping to establish the Potomac River Compact with Virginia.
  Senator Malkus was appointed chairman of the Senate Judicial 
Proceedings Committee in 1955, named State Office of the Year by the 
Maryland Municipal League in 1961, and named admiral of the Chesapeake 
Bay by Governor Harry Hughes in 1983. He was honored in 1987 by the 
naming of a bridge across the Choptank River as the Frederick C. 
Malkus, Jr. Bridge.
  Senator Malkus has been a friend of Dorchester County, the Chesapeake 
Bay, Western Maryland College, the State of Maryland, and a good friend 
of mine for may years. It is with great honor that I stand on the 
Senate floor to recognize his outstanding commitment and dedication to 
the people of Dorchester County and the State of Maryland.

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