[Congressional Record Volume 147, Number 107 (Friday, July 27, 2001)]
[Extensions of Remarks]
[Page E1465]
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             WALTER B. DORSEY A LIFETIME OF PUBLIC SERVICE

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                          HON. STENY H. HOYER

                              of maryland

                    in the house of representatives

                         Friday, July 27, 2001

  Mr. HOYER. Mr. Speaker, former Maryland State Senator and St. Mary's 
County, Maryland State's Attorney Walter B. Dorsey is being honored 
Saturday, July 28, 2001, at the Anniversary Crabfeast of the newspaper 
ST. MARYS TODAY for a Lifetime of Public Service.
  Senator Dorsey is a third generation member of the Maryland General 
Assembly, having been preceded in service by his father, the late 
Circuit Court Judge Phillip H. Dorsey, who was elected to the Maryland 
House of Delegates in 1930 and 1934 and by his grandfather, Walter B. 
Dorsey, who was elected to the House of Delegates in 1911. Senator 
Dorsey was elected to the Maryland Senate in 1958 representing St. 
Mary's County, as was his father who was elected to the same seat in 
1926. The late Judge Dorsey also served as a delegate to the Maryland 
Constitutional Convention in 1967.
  Senator Dorsey was first elected St. Mary's County State's Attorney 
in 1954 after serving in the U. S. Army in Korea in the Judge Advocate 
General Corps. and won election again in 1982, 1986, 1990 and 1994 when 
he retired from office. Senator Dorsey also served as Deputy Maryland 
Public Defender during the administration of Maryland Governor Marvin 
Mandel. He has also maintained a law practice between his service as 
Public Defender and State's Attorney and at this time is of counsel to 
his the firm headed by his son Phillip H. Dorsey II as well as being 
engaged in the operation of Checker's Restaurants in Virginia and 
Maryland as a franchise owner. Senator Dorsey also owned and published 
the newspaper St. Mary's Journal in Leonardtown, Maryland from 1958 to 
1961 as well as a doing a brief stint in the bakery business and 
developing the attractive waterfront new home community on Breton Bay 
known as Mulberry Point.
  Senator Dorsey is married to his lovely wife of 28 years, Brenda B. 
Dorsey. Senator Dorsey has three sons and one daughter, Phillip, John 
Michael, Paul and Helen from his first marriage to the former Jeanne 
Duke Dorsey Mandel and two daughters he has raised with his wife 
Brenda, Sheryl and Suzanne.