Carlton R. Sickles

Carlton R. Sickles

Carlton Ralph Sickles (born June 15, 1921 in Hamden , Connecticut , †  January 17, 2004 in Bethesda , Maryland ) was an American politician . Between 1963 and 1967 he represented the state of Maryland in the US House of Representatives .

Career

Carlton Sickles attended Roosevelt High School in Washington, DC until 1939. He then studied at Georgetown University there until 1943 . During the Second World War he served in the US Army between 1943 and 1946 . After a subsequent law degree at Georgetown University and his admission to the bar in 1948, he began to work in this profession. He worked for the Air Force in 1951 and 1952 . From 1960 to 1966, Sickles gave law lectures at Georgetown University. At the same time he embarked on a political career as a member of the Democratic Party . Between 1955 and 1962 he was a member of the Maryland House of Representatives . From 1955 to 1966 he was a member of the founding commission of the Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority , which was to organize local transport in the greater Washington DC area. In 1964 and 1968 he took part as a delegate at the respective Democratic National Conventions .

In the congressional elections of 1962 , Sickles was elected for the eighth seat of the state of Maryland in the US House of Representatives in Washington, where he exercised his mandate from January 3, 1963. After re-election, he was able to complete two terms in Congress until January 3, 1967 . These were determined by the events of the civil rights movement and the beginning of the Vietnam War .

In 1966 Carlton Sickles renounced another candidacy. Instead, he unsuccessfully sought his party's nomination for the upcoming gubernatorial elections . In 1967 and 1968 he served on a convention to revise the Maryland Constitution. He was also president of the company Carday Associates Inc . Sickles was also a member of his state's planning commission as well as the Washington Metropolitan Transit Authority . In 1986 he unsuccessfully sought his party's nomination for that year's congressional elections. He died in Bethesda on January 17, 2004.

Web links

• Carlton R. Sickles in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)

• Carlton R. Sickles in the database of Find a Grave (English)