J. Lowell Stoltzfus

Infobox Officeholder
name = J. Lowell Stoltzfus


caption =
order = State Senate District 38
term_start = January, 1992
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deputy =
predecessor = Lewis R. Riley
successor = "incumbent"
birth_date = Birth date and age|1949|7|15|mf=y
birth_place = Pottstown, Pennsylvania
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party = Republican
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footnotes =
order2 = House of Delegates District 38
term_start2 = January 1991
term_end2 = January 1992
president =
predecessor2 =
successor2 = Charles A. McClenahan
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term_start3 =
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J. Lowell Stoltzfus (born July 15, 1949) is a Republican Senator former Minority Leader, representing Maryland's 38th Legislative District, which covers parts of Somerset, Wicomico, and Worcester.

Prior to being nominated to replace Lewis Riley in the Maryland State Senate, Stoltzfus was a member of the Maryland House of Delegates District 38.

Education

Stoltzfus is a graduate of the Salisbury University, B.A. English and Sociology 1973 and Eastern Mennonite Seminary.

Career

Stoltzfus has been a member of the Maryland Senate since January 1992. He became Minority Leader in the Maryland Senate in 2001.

In 1998 Stoltzfus co-sponsored a bill that would have allowed Eastern Shore of Maryland residents to vote in a straw poll on secession from Maryland. [http://mlis.state.md.us/1998rs/billfile/sb0564.htm] He has been an outspoken critic of the University of Maryland, College Park's inability to control the illegal, often violent and destructive actions of the student body.

Legislative notes

*voted for electric deregulation in 1999 (HB703) [http://mlis.state.md.us/1999rs/votes/senate/0778.htm]

References

* http://www.msa.md.gov/msa/mdmanual/05sen/html/msa12158.html
* http://www.djs.state.md.us/megafile/msa/speccol/sc2900/sc2908/000001/000186/html/am186--69.html