Lansdale Sasscer

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Lansdale Sasscer

Lansdale Ghiselin Sasscer (born September 30, 1893 in Upper Marlboro , Prince George's County , Maryland , †  November 5, 1964 there ) was an American politician . Between 1939 and 1953 he represented the state of Maryland in the US House of Representatives .

Career

Lansdale Sasscer attended his home public schools, Central High School in Washington, DC and Tome School in Port Deposit . After a subsequent law degree at Dickinson Law School in Carlisle ( Pennsylvania ) and his admission to the bar in 1914, he began to work in Upper Marlboro in this profession. During the First World War he was employed as a first lieutenant in the artillery between 1917 and 1919. After that he practiced as a lawyer again. At the same time he embarked on a political career as a member of the Democratic Party . Between 1922 and 1938, Sasscer served in the Maryland Senate . In 1935 and 1937 he was its president; In 1924 and 1936 he took part as a delegate at the respective Democratic National Conventions . In 1939 he was vice president of a commission to reform the Maryland system of government.

After the death of MP Stephen Warfield Gambrill , Sasscer was elected as his successor to the US House of Representatives in Washington, where he took up his new mandate on February 3, 1939, when the by-election was due for the fifth seat of Maryland. After six re-elections, he could remain in Congress until January 3, 1953 . Further New Deal laws were passed there by 1941 . Since 1941, the work of the Congress was also shaped by the events of the Second World War and its consequences.

In 1952, Sasscer renounced another candidacy. Instead, he unsuccessfully sought his party's nomination for the US Senate elections . After the end of his time in the US House of Representatives, he worked as a lawyer again. He died on November 5, 1964 in his hometown of Upper Marlboro.

Web links

  • Lansdale Sasscer in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)
personal data
SURNAME Sasscer, Lansdale
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Sasscer, Lansdale Ghiselin (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American politician
DATE OF BIRTH September 30, 1893
PLACE OF BIRTH Upper Marlboro , Maryland
DATE OF DEATH 5th November 1964
Place of death Upper Marlboro , Maryland