Kumar P. Barve
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| Member of the Maryland House of Delegates from the 17th district |
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Assumed office January 1991 |
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September 8, 1958 Schenectady, New York |
| Political party | Democratic |
| Spouse(s) | Maureen Quinn |
| Alma mater | Georgetown University |
| Occupation | Financial officer |
Kumar P. Barve (Marathi: कुमार बर्वे ) (born September 8, 1958 in Schenectady, New York is an American politician. He is a member of the Maryland House of Delegates, representing District 17 in Montgomery County, which includes the cities of Rockville and Gaithersburg. He was the first Asian-American, of Indian descent, to be elected to a state legislature in the United States, and served from 2002 to 2015 as the Majority Leader of the House of Delegates. In 2015, he was appointed to chair the House Environment and Transportation Committee, which oversees transportion, the environment, agriculture, ethics, and housing and real property law. His legislative work has focused largely on protecting the environment, improving health care, and the promotion of the high-tech industry in Maryland. He sponsored both the 1995 Health Access Act that place limits on HMOs for the first time and legislation that created the Technology Development Corporation of Maryland. He unsuccessfully ran for Congress in 2016 in Maryland's 8th congressional district, losing the Democratic Primary to the eventual winner, State Senator Jamie Raskin.
Barve was born on September 8, 1958 in Schenectady, New York to Indian-American parents. They family later moved to Maryland, where he attended Paint Branch High School in Silver Spring. In 1980, Barve graduated from Georgetown University's McDonough School of Business with a B.S. degree in Accounting.
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