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Paul Sarbanes Paul Spyros Sarbanes ( ; February 3 , 1933 – December 6 , 2020 ) was an American politician and attorney . A member of the Democratic Party from Maryland , he served as a member of the United States House of Representatives from 1971 to 1977 and as a United States Senator from 1977 to 2007 . Sarbanes was the longest-serving senator in Maryland history until he was surpassed by Barbara Mikulski by a single day when her term ended on January 3 , 2017 . Born in Salisbury , Maryland , Sarbanes was a graduate of Princeton University , Balliol College , Oxford , and Harvard Law School . Elected to the Maryland House of Delegates in 1966 , he went on to serve two terms in the Maryland House from 1967 to 1971 . In 1970 , he won a seat in the United States House of Representatives , representing Marylands 4th and later Marylands 3rd congressional district from 1971 to 1977 . In 1976 , he ran for the United States Senate , defeating Republican incumbent John Glenn Beall Jr . with 59% of the vote . Sarbanes was re-elected four times , each time receiving no less than 59% of the vote . He did not seek re-election in 2006 , when he was succeeded by fellow Democrat Ben Cardin . Sarbanes was known for his low-key style , often shunning the limelight over his thirty-year Senate career . In 2002 , Sarbanes co-sponsored the Sarbanes–Oxley Act , which is cited as his most-noted sponsored piece of legislation . Early life . Sarbanes was born on Marylands Eastern Shore in the city of Salisbury to Greek immigrant parents , Matina ( née Tsigounis ) and Spyros P . Sarbanes , who had emigrated from Laconia , Greece and owned a Salisbury restaurant . A graduate of Wicomico High School in Salisbury , Maryland , Sarbanes attended Princeton University , earning a bachelors degree in 1954 from the School of Public and International Affairs after completing a senior thesis titled The Smith Act : A Denial of American Freedoms . At Princeton , Sarbanes was a member of the American Whig–Cliosophic Society . As a senior , he received the Moses Taylor Pyne Honor Prize , Princetons highest undergraduate honor . He also was awarded a Rhodes Scholarship that brought him to Balliol College of the University of Oxford in Oxford , England . He graduated with a First Class degree in 1957 . Sarbanes then returned to the United States and attended Harvard Law School . After graduating in 1960 , he clerked for Federal Judge Morris A . Soper before entering private practice with two Baltimore , Maryland law firms . Political career . State legislature . In 1966 , Sarbanes ran for the Maryland House of Delegates in Baltimore City and won . During his four years as a State delegate in Annapolis , Maryland he served on both the Judiciary and the Ways and Means Committees . U.S . House of Representatives . Sarbanes was elected to the United States House of Representatives in 1970 from the fourth district of Maryland and was reelected in 1972 and 1974 from the third district . While in the House , Sarbanes served on the Judiciary Committee , the Merchant Marine and Fisheries Committee , and the Select Committee on House Reorganization . As a member of the Judiciary Committee he participated in the Impeachment process against Richard Nixon . On July 26 , 1974 , he introduced the first articles of impeachment against President Nixon for obstruction of justice . U.S . Senate . Sarbanes was elected to the United States Senate in 1976 and re-elected in 1982 , 1988 , 1994 , and 2000 . In 2002 , he was the United States Senate sponsor of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 , which reformed federal securities laws in the wake of the 2002 accounting scandals . Sarbanes served on the following Senate committees : - Ranking Member , Banking , Housing and Urban Affairs - Ranking Member , Special Whitewater - Senior Member , Foreign Relations - Senior Member , Budget - Senior Member , Joint Economic By 1981 , Sarbanes was noted as a frequent critic of military budgets . In spite of this , in May of that year , he voted in favor of approving a Reagan administration-backed $136.5 billion military authorization bill . In December , he voted in favor of an amendment to President Ronald Reagans MX missiles proposal that would divert the silo system by $334 million as well as earmark further research for other methods that would allow giant missiles to be based . While the military authorization bill was seen as supporting the administration , the December vote was viewed as a rebuff of Reagan . On March 11 , 2005 , Sarbanes , the longest-serving senator in Maryland history , announced at a news conference his decision not to seek re-election in 2006 . Colleagues of Sarbanes said that the reason for his retirement from the Senate was due to his annoyance with not having any leadership roles on committees . Sarbanes received the Foreign Language Advocacy Award in 2007 from the Northeast Conference on the Teaching of Foreign Languages in recognition of his lifelong commitment to the values , languages , and cultures of the ancient world in service to the modern world . Personal life and death . In June 1960 , Sarbanes married Christine Dunbar of Brighton , England ; they had three children ( John Sarbanes , Michael Anthony Sarbanes , and Janet Matina Sarbanes ) and seven grandchildren . Christine Sarbanes died of cancer on March 22 , 2009 . Sarbanes held the highest lay office in the Greek Orthodox Church , Order of St . Andrew , Archon of the Ecumenical Patriarchate and was a member of the Greek Orthodox Cathedral of the Annunciation in Baltimore . His son , John Sarbanes , won the general election for Marylands 3rd congressional district in 2006 , the district that Paul Sarbanes represented prior to his election as senator . Paul Sarbanes died at his home in Baltimore on December 6 , 2020 , at the age of 87 . Election history . - Sources : Publications . - The premise of the U . S . Constitutional system , Perspectives on culture and society , vol . 1 ( 1988 ) , 119–126