DeWitt Hyde

DeWitt Stephen Hyde (born March 21, 1909 in Washington, DC , †  April 25, 1986 in Bethesda , Maryland ) was an American politician . Between 1953 and 1959 he represented the state of Maryland in the US House of Representatives .

Career

DeWitt Hyde attended public schools in his home country. He worked for the Farm Credit Administration for three years in the early 1930s . After a subsequent law degree at George Washington University and his admission as a lawyer in 1935, he began to work in the federal capital Washington in this profession. In 1938 he moved his residence and practice to Maryland. During the Second World War he served as an officer in the US Navy in the South Pacific between 1943 and 1946 . After the war he taught law at Benjamin Franklin University in Washington between 1946 and 1951 . At the same time he embarked on a political career as a member of the Republican Party . He served in the Maryland House of Representatives from 1947 to 1950 ; from 1951 to 1952 he was a member of the State Senate .

In the 1952 congressional election , Hyde was elected to the US House of Representatives in Washington in the sixth constituency of Maryland, where he succeeded James Glenn Beall on January 3, 1953 . After two re-elections, he was able to complete three legislative terms in Congress by January 3, 1959 . These were determined by the events of the Cold War and the civil rights movement . In 1958, DeWitt Hyde was not re-elected.

After the end of his time in the US House of Representatives, he initially practiced as a lawyer again. Between 1959 and 1979 he was a judge in the District of Columbia . He died on April 25, 1986 in his home town of Bethesda.

Web links

• DeWitt Hyde in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)

• DeWitt Hyde in the database of Find a Grave (English)