Paul E. Weisengoff, a former noted Baltimore legislator who served in the General Assembly for 27 years and later became a registered lobbyist for the Maryland Jockey Club and Laurel Racing Association, died from complications of a stroke May 30 at Atlantic General Hospital in Berlin, Worcester County. The former Beechfield resident who lived in Ocean Pines was 89.
Dennis R. Schrader, second from right, has been nominated by Gov. Lawrence J. Hogan Jr. (R) once again to be state Health secretary. Photo by Danielle E. Gaines.
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Hours before the General Assembly gaveled in for its 442nd session Wednesday, Gov. Lawrence J. Hogan Jr. (R) announced a round of appointments that could prove controversial in the Democratic legislature.
Among the appointments, which included filling two legislative vacancies, Hogan announced that he was re-nominating Dennis R. Schrader to be secretary of Health and re-nominating former Prince George’s County Circuit Court judge Bryon S. Bereano to fill a District Court vacancy.