As chairman of the Budget and Taxation Committee, he became one of the most influential members of the Montgomery County delegation.
Laurence Levitan, a Democrat who served for two decades in the Maryland Senate, died March 20 at 90. Laurence Levitan, a former Maryland state senator who during his two decades in office became one of the most influential members of the Montgomery County delegation, died March 20 at a nursing home in Bethesda, Md. He was 90.Mr.
Mr. Levitan became known in Annapolis as “Larry the Cat” for his ability to emerge unscathed from challenges and controversy. “He doesn’t have nine lives,” one legislator He was a partner over the years in law firms, including Levitan, Ezrin, Cramer, West and Weinstein and, later, Rifkin, Livingston, Levitan and Silver.
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