The Baltimore Sun reports this morning that one of the Eastern Shore’s most powerful advocates has passed away at his home in Kennedyville, Maryland.
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Eastern Shore Advocate and MD House Speaker Clayton Mitchell Dies at 83
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Howard Freedlander says
Clay Mitchell was well-known and well-liked in Annapolis. He represented a breed of Eastern Shore legislators who led the powerful House Appropriations Committee and thus provided the vote-challenged Shore with a voice at the table. As Speaker of he House of Delegates, he dealt constantly with difficult statewide issues. He was a superb citizen-legislator.