Charles "Mac" Mathias, a former three-term senator from Maryland, died Monday at the age of 87. A Republican in a Democratic state -- and a liberal in a conservative party -- Mathias was a very ...

Imagine, if you can, Mac Mathias today — a moderate-to-liberal Republican senator of keen intellect, with broad knowledge of history and an impressive grasp of foreign affairs. Imagine a Republican ...

Just in time for a Maryland election featuring a serious Republican candidate for U.S. Senate trying to pass himself off as a moderate, a new biography about the last Republican U.S. senator from ...

Dan Rodricks reminded us of a time when our politics were filled with men and women of integrity, people like U.S. Sen. Charles McC. “Mac” Mathias Jr. (“Memories of Mathias, nostalgia for a principled ...

With a $45 million federal appropriation to the Smithsonian Institution, the Smithsonian Environmental Research Center in Edgewater, Md., on the Chesapeake Bay, will start building today what is ...

The news that Charles “Mac” Mathias had died at 87 of Parkinson’s disease aroused fond memories of a slightly round and rumpled man who drove a battered blue station wagon to his Senate office and ...

The death of Frederick native Charles McCurdy "Mac" Mathias Jr., a man of lifelong bipartisanship, brought both houses of the Maryland General Assembly to attention Tuesday. They adjourned ...

U.S. Sen. Benjamin Cardin, D-Md., issued a statement Tuesday about the passing of former U.S. Sen. Charles "Mac" Mathias, R-Md., that we believe captures the essence of Sen. Mathias: "Mac Mathias was ...

If you want to see the monuments to a great American statesman, just look around the area. From Civil War battlefields to the C&O Canal restoration to the Chesapeake Bay, all reflect the legacy of Sen ...

"He was always very cordial. He had this reputation of being a helpful man."<P> John Hanson Briscoe, an active retired circuit judge who once served as speaker of the Maryland House of Delegates, said ...

Former Maryland Sen. Charles "Mac" Mathias, a liberal in a conservative party, dies at age 87. Charles "Mac" Mathias, a former three-term senator from Maryland, died Monday at the age of 87. A ...