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JACOB C. (JAKE) SHADE, President, Board of County Commissioners (Republican)
Member, Board of Education, Allegany County, 2014-; Board of Health, Allegany County, 2014-; Mental Health Advisory Board, Allegany County, 2014-; Social Services Board, Allegany County, 2014-.
Member, Cumberland Area Metropolitan Planning Organization, 2014-; Comptroller's Task Force on Electronic Smoking Devices, 2019-20; Task Force on the Economic Future of Western Maryland, 2020-22. Secretary-Treasurer, Tri-County Council for Western Maryland, 2020 (member, 2014-; chair, 2019).
Born in Cumberland, Maryland. Attended Allegany High School, Cumberland, Maryland; University of Maryland, College Park, B.A. (government & politics), 2013, M.T.E. (technology entrepreneurship), 2015. Legislative Director for Delegates LeRoy E. Myers, Jr., and Andrew A. Serafini, 2013-14. Member, Allegany County Republican Club, 2008-; Allegany County Republican Central Committee, 2013-15. Member, Cumberland-Allegany County Industrial Foundation, Inc., 2014-; Allegany County Task Force on Child Abuse and Neglect, Inc., 2014-. Member, Queen City Masons Lodge no. 131, Cumberland; Allegany County Chamber of Commerce; Winston Churchill Centre. Republican of the Year, 2011, and Rising Star, 2013, Allegany County Republican Central Committee.
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