Goodloe Byron

Goodloe Byron

Goodloe Edgar Byron (born June 22, 1929 in Williamsport , Washington County , Maryland , †  October 11, 1978 in Hagerstown , Maryland) was an American politician . Between 1971 and 1978 he represented the state of Maryland in the US House of Representatives .

Career

Goodloe Byron was the son of Congressmen William D. Byron and Katharine Byron and the great grandson of US Senator Louis E. McComas . His wife Beverly would later succeed him in Congress. He attended the public schools of his home country and then the St. Albans School in Washington, DC He then studied until 1951 at the University of Virginia in Charlottesville . After studying law at George Washington University and being admitted to the bar in 1953, he began to work in this profession. From 1954 he was in the legal service ofUS Army . He was stationed with the 3rd Panzer Division in Germany, where he made it to the captain. He retired from the Army in 1957 and immediately became a member of the Maryland National Guard. Since 1958 he continued his legal practice in Frederick . From 1959 to 1961 he was a district attorney in Frederick County there . At the same time he embarked on a political career as a member of the Democratic Party .

From 1966 to 1970 Goodloe Byron was a member of the Planning and Zoning Law Study commission . He served in the Maryland House of Representatives from 1963 to 1967 ; between 1967 and 1971 he was a member of the State Senate . In the 1970 congressional election , Byron was elected to the US House of Representatives in Washington in the sixth constituency of Maryland, where he succeeded John Glenn Beall on January 3, 1971 . After three re-elections, he could remain in Congress until his death on October 11, 1978 . During this time the Vietnam War ended . In 1974, the work of Congress was also overshadowed by the events of the Watergate affair . At the time of his death, Goodloe Byron was already nominated for another re-election. He was buried in the Antietam National Cemetery in Sharpsburg . His parliamentary mandate then fell to his wife Beverly.

Web links

• Goodloe Byron in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)

• Goodloe Byron in the database of Find a Grave (English)