Linwood Clark

Linwood Leon Clark (born March 21, 1876 in Aberdeen , Maryland , †  November 18, 1965 in Annapolis , Maryland) was an American politician . Between 1929 and 1931 he represented the state of Maryland in the US House of Representatives .

Career

Linwood Clark attended public schools in his home country. He then studied until 1899 at the Milton Academy in Baltimore and at the American University of Harriman in Tennessee . After a subsequent law degree at the University of Maryland and his admission as a lawyer in 1904, he began to work in Baltimore in this profession. At the same time he embarked on a political career as a member of the Republican Party . In 1926 he ran unsuccessfully for the US House of Representatives.

In the 1928 congressional elections , Clark was elected to the US House of Representatives in Washington, DC in the second constituency of Maryland , where he succeeded William Purington Cole , whom he had defeated in the election, on March 4, 1929 . Since he lost to Cole in 1930, he was only able to serve one term in Congress until March 3, 1931 . This was shaped by the events of the global economic crisis.

After his time in the US House of Representatives, Linwood Clark practiced law again. Between 1935 and 1938 he served as a judge in the fifth judicial district of his state. Then he worked as a lawyer again. He died on November 18, 1965 in Annapolis and was buried in Baltimore.

Web links

• Linwood Clark in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)

• Linwood Clark in the database of Find a Grave (English)