Charles McC. Mathias is President and Chairman of the Board of First American Bankshares, Inc. in Washington, D.C. From 1987 to 1993 he was a partner in the international law firm of Jones, Day, Reavis and Pogue.

Mathias was elected as a Representative from the Sixth Congressional District of Maryland in 1960 and served four terms in the House of Representatives. He ran for the United States Senate in 1968 and was re-elected in 1974 and again in 1980.

In 1985 he was elected president of the North Atlantic Assembly, the organization of NATO parliamentarians, having served as vice-president and as chairman of the United States Senate delegation. Senator Mathias served on the Kaiser Commission on the Future of Medicaid.