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 ...

The passing of Charles McC. Mathias Jr. this week is the passing of an era — for Maryland, the state he served in Congress for a quarter-century, and for the nation. But does it have to be the passing ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

"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 ...