This article is about the current Maryland state senator. For George W. Della (1908–1990), former president of the Maryland Senate, see George W. Della.
George W. Della Jr.
former Maryland state senator and President of the Senate, George W. Della, Jr. of South / Southwestern Baltimore
Della was first elected during the American Bicentennial year of 1976 to the Baltimore City Council, as one of the three councilmen then elected from the old 6th councilmanic district for south and southwestern Baltimore City serving six years (before the City Charter was amended in the early 2000s to create ten single-member districts currently).
In 1982, he won his seat in the Maryland Senate, representing the same area, which his father (George W. Della (Sr., 1908-1990) had also represented and serving as President of the Senate, several decades earlier.
He sat on the Finance Committee and the Executive Nominations Committee.[1]
In January 2009, he introduced a bill (SB 233) intended to ban "Beer Pong", and would have "outlawed any games that award drinks as prizes in city taverns". Della withdrew the bill eve of its first committee hearing, stating ""We're getting inundated with so many e-mails that I don't have the time to fool with it... ...I just hope that if people continue doing it, they do it in a way that there's not excessive drinking and disrespect for the surrounding neighborhoods."[2][3]
After 28 years in the body at the Maryland State House in the state capital of Annapolis, Della was defeated for reelection in the 2010 Democratic Party's primary by Bill Ferguson.
