Conroy was appointed to the Maryland Senate to fill the remaining term of her late husband, Senator Ed Conroy, upon his death in 1982. Conroy was later appointed to the Maryland House of Delegates to fill the remaining term of Gerard Devlin after he became a Prince George's County District Court Judge. Conroy served as a delegate for more than twenty years, and she had the distinction of being the Deputy Majority Leader for four of those years.
Conroy's time in Bowie dates back to the time when Levitt & Sons first started selling houses in the community. Conroy and her husband were one of the first homebuyers in the Belair at Bowie development. They purchased a Colonial on the corner of Stonybrook Drive and Shawmont Lane in a section of town that was once referred to as a "professional row," according to Conroy. There was no office space in Bowie in the early 1960s, so it was common for doctors, dentists and other professionals to buy houses along Stonybrook Drive to serve as homes and offices. Ed Conroy had a law office in the Conroy home on Shawmont Lane.
The Conroys called themselves Belair at Bowie's first residents. They signed the development's very first property title on the morning of October 17, 1961, according to the Washington Star.
Mary Conroy on Wikipedia
Mary Controy's House of Delegates Profile
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