Maurice Cardin (July 19, 1909 – March 23, 2009) was an American politician who served in the

Maryland House of Delegates The Maryland House of Delegates is the lower house of the legislature of the State of Maryland. It consists of 141 delegates elected from 47 districts. The House of Delegates Chamber is in the Maryland State House on State Circle in Annapolis, ...

from

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City's 5th district from 1951 to 1966. His nephew is current Maryland

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Ben Cardin Benjamin Louis Cardin (born October 5, 1943) is an American lawyer and politician serving as the senior United States senator from Maryland, a seat he has held since 2007. A member of the Democratic Party, he previously was the U.S. representati ...

, who took over his seat in the Maryland House of Delegates when he retired from politics. He died of heart failure on March 23, 2009, in

Lake Worth, Florida Lake Worth Beach, previously named Lake Worth, is a city in east-central Palm Beach County, Florida, United States, located about north of Miami. The city's name is derived from the body of water along its eastern border known as the Lake Worth ...

at age 99.

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1909 births 2009 deaths Democratic Party members of the Maryland House of Delegates People from Lake Worth Beach, Florida People from Baltimore 20th-century American politicians Cardin family {{Maryland-politician-stub