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

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from

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

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Ben Cardin Benjamin Louis Cardin (born October 5, 1943) is an American lawyer and former politician who served as a United States Senate, United States senator from Maryland from 2007 until 2025. A member of the Democratic Party (United States), Democratic ...

, 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 Beach, 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 Wort ...

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 Politicians from Baltimore 20th-century members of the Maryland General Assembly Cardin family {{Maryland-politician-stub