Paul Sarbanes was a former Democratic U.S. senator from Maryland who served five terms and drafted the first article of impeachment against President Richard Nixon.Sarbanes briefly served in the Maryland House of Delegates before being elected to the U.S.
House of Representatives in 1970, representing Maryland’s fourth and later third districts. In the House, Sarbanes served on the Judiciary Committee, and when Nixon became embroiled in the Watergate scandal, it was Sarbanes who drafted and introduced the first articles of impeachment against the president, for obstruction of justice.
After three terms in the House, Sarbanes was elected to the U.S. Senate in 1976, where he served five terms before his retirement in 2006.
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