Roy Dyson

Royden Patrick " Roy " Dyson (* November 15, 1948 in Great Mills, Saint Mary's County, Maryland) is an American politician. Between 1981 and 1991 he represented the state of Maryland in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Roy Dyson first attended private schools. He then completed until 1966, the Great Mills High School. He then studied 1968-1970, among others at the University of Maryland and the University of Baltimore. At the same time he proposed as a member of the Democratic Party launched a political career. In 1973 and 1974 he was employed as a Legislative Assistant in the management of the U.S. House of Representatives. Between 1975 and 1980, Dyson sat in the House of Representatives from Maryland. In 1978 he was a delegate to the Democratic National Issues Conference. In 1976, he ran unsuccessfully for even the U.S. House of Representatives.

In the congressional elections of 1980, Dyson was but then in the first electoral district of Maryland in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he succeeded Robert Bauman took on 3 January 1981 he had beaten in the election. After four elections he was able to complete in Congress until January 3, 1991 five legislative sessions. In 1990 he was defeated by Republican Wayne Gilchrest, whom he had defeated just in 1988.

Since 1995, Dyson was a member of the Senate of Maryland. He lives in Great Mills.