Pauline Menes: 1924-2009
May 18th, 2009 by Kenneth Burns
Longtime Prince George’s Delegate Pauline Menes (D-Dist. 21) died over the weekend. She was 84.
The Baltimore Sun says that Menes was apart of the Democratic wave of 1966 that brought Ben Cardin and Paul Sarbanes to the House and Steny Hoyer to the state Senate. Cardin is holding the U.S. Senate seat that Sarbanes once held, while Hoyer is U.S. House Majority Leader.
Menes was born in New York, a graduate of Hunter College. She went on to become co-founder and first chair of the caucus of women legislators in Annapolis. In addition, she was also the first woman to sit on the House Judiciary Committee.
Her husband, Melvin Menes, preceded her in death in 2000. She is survived by three daughters.
In leiu of flowers, expressions of sympathies can be made to:
The Pauline Menes Fund at the Maryland Women’s Heritage Center
PO Box 719
Brooklandville, MD 21022-0719
