BALTIMORE (AP) — Former Delegate Kenneth L. Webster, who authored legislation to make Maryland the second state to recognize the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.’s birthday as a holiday in 1974, has died. He was 76.
Webster died Saturday morning of kidney failure at a Baltimore hospital, said his wife, Phoebe Webster. The Baltimore Democrat and Air Force veteran of the Korean War was a state delegate from 1970 to 1978.
“He liked working with all different causes for the betterment of people,” Phoebe Webster said Sunday evening.
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