Stephen Warfield Gambrill

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Stephen Warfield Gambrill (1826)

Stephen Warfield Gambrill (born October 2, 1873 in Savage , Howard County , Maryland , †  December 19, 1938 in Washington, DC ) was an American politician . Between 1924 and 1938 he represented the state of Maryland in the US House of Representatives .

Career

Stephen Gambrill attended the public schools of his home country and then studied at the Maryland Agricultural College , the later University of Maryland in College Park . After a subsequent law degree at Columbian College , now George Washington University , and his admission to the bar in 1897, he began to work in this profession in Baltimore . At the same time he embarked on a political career as a member of the Democratic Party . He served in the Maryland House of Representatives from 1920 to 1922 ; in 1924 he was a member of the State Senate .

After the death of the MP Sydney Emanuel Mudd , Gambrill was elected to the US House of Representatives in Washington in the by-election due for the fifth seat of Maryland, where he took up his new mandate on November 4, 1924. After seven re-elections, he could remain in Congress until his death on December 19, 1938 . At the time of his death, he was already elected for the next legislative period. Since 1933, most of the federal government's New Deal laws have been passed in Congress under President Franklin D. Roosevelt .

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SURNAME Gambrill, Stephen Warfield
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American politician
DATE OF BIRTH October 2, 1873
PLACE OF BIRTH near Savage , Maryland
DATE OF DEATH December 19, 1938
Place of death Washington, DC