Senator Julian L. Lapides Collection

During his career in the State Senate, Senator Lapides' interests focused on issues surrounding ethics, political financial disclosure, Death With Dignity/Living Will, and the Stadium Authority Committee. The papers reveal insight into the workings of a State Senator's office including the drafting and passage of Senate Bills, interactions between constituents and U.S. Senators and Congressmen, and an incumbent's political campaigns. The collection also supplies insight into a major Mayoral campaign. Senator's Lapides' work for the American Antiquarian Society is found in boxes 67 through 78.

Subjects are donor arranged. Folder titles provided by donor.

General Assembly: House of Delegates, Baltimore City, 1963-67. Senate, District 8, 1967-74, District 39, 1975-82, District 44, 1983-94. Senate chair, Joint Budget and Audit Committee; Joint Committee on Legislative Ethics. Member, Budget and Taxation Committee; Public Safety, Transportation, Economic Development & Natural Resources Subcommittee; Capital Budget Subcommittee; Pensions Subcommittee. Member, Legislative Policy Committee; Special Joint Committee on Pensions; Joint Subcommittee on Program Open Space and Agricultural Land Preservation; Joint Subcommittee on State's Capital Program; Joint Expenditure Study Group on Law Enforcement and Transportation.

Private Career and Other Public Service: Served in the U.S. Army, 1954-56. Attorney. Member, Maryland Housing Policy Commission; State Planning Commission; Hall of Records Commission; Museum Assistance Review Panel; Maryland State Arts Council. President, Mount Royal Democratic Club. Council member, American Antiquarian Society. Member, Peale Museum; Baltimore Museum of Art; Walters Art Gallery; Victorian Society in America. Life member, NAACP. President, Maryland Kidney Foundation; Regional vice-president, National Kidney Foundation, 1970-72. Member, Board of Directors, Lyric Foundation, Inc.; Common Cause of Maryland; Baltimore Shakespeare Festival; Lillie Carroll Jackson Museum. President, Preservation Society of Federal Hill and Fell's Point, 2000-. First Citizen Award, 1997.