Newton I. Steers Jr.

A Representative from Maryland. Born in Glen Ridge, Essex County, N. J. , January 13, 1917. Attended the public schools of White Plains, N. Y. Graduated from the Hotchkiss School, Lakeville, Conn. , 1935. B. A. , Yale University, 1939. Certificate of Advanced Meteorology, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1943. J. D. , Yale Law School, 1948. Admitted to the New York bar in 1958 and the District of Columbia bar in 1967. Served in United States Army Air Corps, 1941-1946, participated in the Normandy invasion. Employed by E. I. Du Pont, 1939-1941, GAF Corp. , 1948-1951, and the United States Atomic Energy Commission, 1951-1953. President of several investment companies in New York, 1953-1965. Unsuccessful candidate for election in 1962 to the Eighty-eighth Congress. Maryland Republican State chairman, 1964-1966. Maryland State insurance commissioner, 1967-1970. In 1970, became Maryland Assistant Secretary, Licensing and Regulation. Member, Maryland state senate, 1971-1977. Delegate, Republican National Convention, 1964 and 1984. Elected as a Republican to the Ninety-fifth Congress (January 3, 1977-January 3, 1979). Unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1978 to the Ninety-sixth Congress and for election in 1980 to the Ninety-seventh Congress. Unsuccessful candidate for election as lieutenant governor of Maryland in 1982. Was a resident of Bethesda, Md. , until his death there on February 11, 1993.