ANNAPOLIS, Md. (AP) - Former Gov. Marvin Mandel will lie in repose at the Maryland State House this week, a day before his funeral.
Elaine Rice Bachmann, acting secretary of the State House Trust, said Monday the trust has approved use of the capitol for the former governor to lie in repose Wednesday.
Mandel, a Democrat, died Sunday. He was 95.
Mandel was governor from 1969 to 1979. Hewas also speaker of the Maryland House of Delegates before serving as governor.
Mandel is widely viewed as an innovator who reorganized state government to be more efficient. His political legacy was clouded by his conviction on mail fraud charges in 1977 for selling the powers of his office, though his sentence was commuted after serving 19 months in federal prison, and the conviction was overturned.
