Beverly Byron

Beverly Barton Butcher Byron ( born July 27, 1932 in Baltimore, Maryland) is a former American politician. Between 1979 and 1993, she represented the state of Maryland in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Beverly Barton Butcher, so her maiden name, attended until 1950, the National Cathedral School for Girls in Washington DC In 1961 and 1962 she studied then still at Hood College in Frederick. By her marriage with the late Congressman Goodloe Byron, she was the daughter of the U.S. House of Representatives also are members of Maryland William and Katharine Byron. How this was she a member of the Democratic Party. In the years 1962 and 1965 she served as treasurer of the youth organization of their party in Maryland.

In the congressional elections of 1978 she was elected as successor of her in the meantime the dead man who was actually scheduled for a bid again in the sixth electoral district of Maryland in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington, where she started her new mandate on January 3, 1979. After six elections she was able to complete in Congress until January 3, 1993 seven legislative sessions. There she was temporarily a member of the Armed Services Committee, the Committee on Insular Affairs and the Committee, which dealt with issues of aging. Beverly Byron was considered more conservative members of parliament. In 1992, she was not nominated by their party for re-election.

In 1993 she became a member of a commission that dealt with the closure of military bases. Today she lives in Frederick.