John Sarbanes

John Peter Spyros Sarbanes (born 22 May 1962 Baltimore, Maryland) is an American politician. Since 2007, he represented the state of Maryland in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

John Sarbanes, the son of U.S. Senator Paul Sarbanes, attended until 1980, the Gilman School and then studied until 1984 at Princeton University. After a subsequent law degree from Harvard University and his made ​​in 1988 admitted to the bar he began to work in a large law firm in Baltimore. Politically, he joined the Democratic Party.

In the congressional elections of 2006, Sarbanes in the third constituency of Maryland was in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he succeeded the exchanged in the Senate Ben Cardin on January 3, 2007. After the previous two elections, he can exercise his mandate in Congress today. In 2010, he was confirmed with 61.07 % of the vote in his office. In Congress, he is a member of the Committee on Natural Resources and the Committee on Energy and Commerce as well as in three sub-committees. He also serves on the International Conservation Caucus bipartisan, which works to protect the environment. In the congressional elections of 2012, Sarbanes sat with 67:30 percent of the vote against the Republicans by Eric Knowles.

John Sarbanes is married and father of three children. Private family lives in Towson.