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Governor Bob Ehrlich Names Port Of Baltimore
After The Honorable Helen Delich Bentley, our Distinguished
Honorary Chairman Of Tesla Memorial Society of New York and previous US Congresswoman
The Port of Baltimore is celebrating its 300th anniversary from its founding in 1706. The Port of Baltimore was renamed the Helen Delich Bentley Port of Baltimore, Maryland. Bentley is a former Congresswoman, Distinguished Honorary Chairman (Tesla Memorial Society of New York), Chairman of the United States Federal Maritime Commission, and longtime Port advocate. Governor Ehrlich recognizes Ms. Bentley's commitment to the Port's future.
300th Anniversary - Port of Baltimore, Maryland (1706-2006)
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http://www.e-mdot.com/News/2006/June%202006/POB_Bentley.htm BALTIMORE, MD --- At a
formal event recognizing the 300th anniversary of Maryland's Port of
Baltimore, Governor Robert L. Ehrlich, Jr. tonight announced that the Port
will be renamed the Helen Delich Bentley Port of Baltimore. In renaming
the Port after the former Congresswoman, Chairman of the United States
Federal Maritime Commission, and longtime Port advocate, Governor Ehrlich
recognizes Ms. Bentley's commitment to the Port's future. New signs and
logos reflecting the name change will begin to be used in 2007. From 1985 through 1995, Ms. Bentley served in the U.S. House of
Representatives, representing Maryland's 2nd Congressional District.
While in Congress, she sat on the Appropriations, Budget, Public Works &
Transportation and Merchant Marine and Fisheries Committees, in addition
to the Steel, Art, Northeast, Human Rights and Trade and Tourism Caucuses.
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Kathy Bergren Smith
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Kathy Bergren Smith
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Kathy Bergren Smith
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"For more than five decades, the name of Helen Delich Bentley has been
synonymous with the Port of Baltimore," said Governor Ehrlich. "There has
been no one who has championed the vital role the Port plays in both the
global economy and our everyday lives more than Helen. Although she has
enjoyed a spectacularly diverse career, from newspaper reporter to
Congresswoman, she has always been known as the "mother of the port."
Ms. Bentley's first career was as a maritime reporter and editor for The
Baltimore Sun, where in her 24-year tenure she created one of the most
respected maritime sections in the nation. She broke important national
stories through a dogged determination and a personal style that made her
famous from the boardrooms to the docks. Her coverage of the supply
problem for America's war effort in Vietnam led to the institutions of
containers as the preferred method of cargo transport.
In 1950, she moved into television. Ms. Bentley acted as reporter,
director, editor, and producer for her series, "The Port That Built a
City," and, later, "The Port That Built a City - and State." Throughout,
she still wrote and edited at The Sun. Her focus on the Port of
Baltimore intensified both public and government awareness of the Port's
substantial economic impact on Maryland.
From 1969 through1975, Ms. Bentley served as Chairman of the United States
Federal Maritime Commission. At the time, she was the fourth-highest
ranking woman in the history of Federal government.
Since 1995, she has been President and CEO of Helen Bentley & Associates,
Inc., specializing in government relations and business development. Ms.
Bentley is also a consultant to the Maryland Port Administration and a
small businesswoman.
Throughout her career, Ms. Bentley has tirelessly promoted two primary
issues - the advancement of America's maritime community, and America's
industrial and manufacturing base.
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Helen Delich Bentley
Helen Delich Bentley was born on
November 28,
1923.
She was an American politician and a former
Republican U.S. House Representative from the
second district of her adopted home state of
Maryland.
Congresswoman
Helen Delich Bentley, R-Maryland, in an
undated photo
Bentley was born in the tiny town of Ruth, White
Pine County, Nevada, and attended the
University of Nevada and
George Washington University. She earned a BA
from
University of Missouri in 1944. She was a
maritime reporter and editor of the
Baltimore Sun and served on the
Federal Maritime Commission from 1969 to 1975.
Bentley was an unsuccessful candidate for election
to the
Ninety-seventh in 1980 and
Ninety-eighth Congresses in 1982. She was
elected as a Republican to the
Ninety-ninth Congress in 1984, and to the four
succeeding Congresses, serving in Congress from
January 3,
1985
to
January 3,
1995.
During her time in office, she was a strong advocate
for protectionist trade policies in support of U.S.
manufacturing and the U.S.
Merchant Marine fleet. Of
Serbian origin, she was known to be sympathetic
towards
Serbians during the civil war in
Yugoslavia in the
1990s, and opposed U.S. military involvement in
that conflict. A member of the Committee on Merchant
Marine and Fisheries, Bentley was recognized by her
colleagues as a leading expert on federal maritme
policy.
She was not a candidate for reelection to the One
Hundred Fourth Congress in 1994, but was an
unsuccessful candidate for nomination for
Governor of Maryland. She was an unsuccessful
candidate for election to the
One Hundred Eighth Congress in 2002, losing to
then-Baltimore County Executive
C.A. Dutch Ruppersberger.
Before and since that time she has been an active
businesswoman and lobbyist as the President and CEO
of Helen Delich Bentley & Associates, Inc.,
and also as an International Trade, Business and
Government Consultant. She also is/was a consultant
for the Maryland Port Administration, Port of
Baltimore. In June 2006,
Maryland Governor
Robert L. Ehrlich, Jr., renamed the Port of
Baltimore as the "Helen Delich Bentley Port of
Baltimore."
Bentley was married to William Roy Bentley, who died
in 2003 from a stroke. The couple had no children.
