Frank M. Conaway Sr.

Conaway was born in Baltimore, on March 16, 1933. He attended Frederick Douglass High School and received his B.A. from Morgan State University, a historically black college in Baltimore. He entered state politics at age 37, winning election to the Maryland House of Delegates in 1970. He did not win re-election in 1974, but did win a second nonconsecutive term in 1978. After his time in the House of Delegates, he won election as the Baltimore City Circuit Court Clerk, winning five terms. Conaway was a member of the Democratic Party for most of his career, but switched parties and became a Republican shortly before his death in office, on February 15, 2015, in Baltimore, saying that other Democratic officials in the city had ignored him.^[2][3] His son Frank Jr. went on to become a politician.