Matthew J. Mossburg is a business owner and former Republican

Republican Party (United States)

The Republican Party is one of the two major contemporary political parties in the United States, along with the Democratic Party. Founded by anti-slavery expansion activists in 1854, it is often called the GOP . The party's platform generally reflects American conservatism in the U.S...

 legislator in the Maryland House of Delegates

Maryland House of Delegates

The Maryland House of Delegates is the lower house of the General Assembly, the state legislature of the U.S. state of Maryland, and is composed of 141 Delegates elected from 47 districts. The House chamber is located in the state capitol building on State Circle in Annapolis...

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Education

Delegate Mossburg was educated at Puritan Christian School in Laytonsville, MD. He graduated from Georgetown University

Georgetown University

Georgetown University is a private, Jesuit, research university whose main campus is in the Georgetown neighborhood of Washington, D.C. Founded in 1789, it is the oldest Catholic university in the United States...

 Bachelor's degree in 1992.

Career

Delegate Mossburg was a one-term delegate from the heavily-Democratic Montgomery County, Maryland

Montgomery County, Maryland

Montgomery County is a county in the U.S. state of Maryland, situated just to the north of Washington, D.C., and southwest of the city of Baltimore. It is one of the most affluent counties in the United States, and has the highest percentage of residents over 25 years of age who hold post-graduate...

. District 39, in 1994, was fully Republican with Mossburg, W. Raymond Beck

W. Raymond Beck

W. Raymond Beck , was a member of the Maryland House of Delegates from District 39.-Background:W. Raymond Beck was elected to the Maryland House of Delegates in 1994. He served until 1999 and did not run for reelection. The two-Republican district was replaced by three Democrats: Charles E....

, and Barrie S. Ciliberti. However, Maryland Governor Parris Glendening

Parris Glendening

Parris Nelson Glendening , a member of the United States Democratic Party, was the 59th Governor of Maryland from January 18, 1995 to January 15, 2003...

 redrew many districts in the Democrat's favor. Though his original map was redrawn by the court system, Republicans suffered with all three in this district losing in the 1998 election, in addition to Republican Congresswoman Connie Morella

Connie Morella

Constance Albanese "Connie" Morella is a Republican United States politician who represented in the United States House of Representatives from 1987 to 2003. She also served as Permanent Representative to the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development from 2003 to 2007. She...

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While a member of the Maryland House of Delegates, Mossburg was a member of the Economic Matters Committee from 1995 until 1996, the Appropriations Committee in 1997, and the Commerce and Government Matters Committee from 1998 until 1999.

Election results

• 1998 Race for Maryland House of Delegates – District 39

Voters to choose three:

Name	Votes	Percent	Outcome
Charles E. Barkley Charles E. Barkley Charles E. "Charlie" Barkley is an American politician from Maryland and a member of the Democratic Party. He is currently serving in his third term in the Maryland House of Delegates, representing Maryland's District 39 in Montgomery County... , Dem.	17,020	18%	Won
Paul Carlson, Dem.	16,670	18%	Won
Joan F. Stern, Dem.	16,515	18%	Won
Barrie S. Ciliberti, Rep.	14,420	16%	Lost
Walter McKee, Rep.	14,412	16%	Lost
Mathew Mossburg, Rep.	13,439	15%	Lost

• 1994 Race for Maryland House of Delegates – District 39

Voters to choose three:

Name	Votes	Percent	Outcome
Mathew Mossburg, Rep.	13,119	17%	Won
W. Raymond Beck W. Raymond Beck W. Raymond Beck , was a member of the Maryland House of Delegates from District 39.-Background:W. Raymond Beck was elected to the Maryland House of Delegates in 1994. He served until 1999 and did not run for reelection. The two-Republican district was replaced by three Democrats: Charles E.... , Rep.	12,311	16%	Won
Barrie S. Ciliberti, Rep.	12,897	16%	Won
Charles E. Barkley Charles E. Barkley Charles E. "Charlie" Barkley is an American politician from Maryland and a member of the Democratic Party. He is currently serving in his third term in the Maryland House of Delegates, representing Maryland's District 39 in Montgomery County... , Dem.	12,137	15%	Lost
Anise Key Brown, Dem.	10,987	14%	Lost
Anthony J. Santangelo, Dem.	10,939	14%	Lost
Patricia Cummings, Ind.	6,471	8%	Lost

External links

• House of Delegates profile page