Sydney Emanuel Mudd (politician, 1858)

Sydney Emanuel Mudd

Sydney Emanuel Mudd (born February 12, 1858 in Charles County , Maryland , †  October 21, 1911 in Philadelphia , Pennsylvania ) was an American politician . Between 1890 and 1911 he represented the state of Maryland twice in the US House of Representatives .

Career

Sydney Mudd attended Georgetown University in the federal capital Washington, DC and then studied until 1878 at St. John's College in Annapolis . After a subsequent law degree at the University of Virginia in Charlottesville and his license to practice law in 1880, he began to work in this profession. 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 in 1879 and 1881 . In 1888 he was defeated in the congressional elections to the incumbent Barnes Compton . But Mudd appealed against the outcome of the election. When this was granted, he was able to take up his mandate on March 20, 1890 and end the legislative term in Congress by March 3, 1891 . In 1890 he lost again to Compton.

In 1896, Sydney Mudd was a member and, in successor to James H. Preston , Speaker of the Maryland House of Representatives. From 1896 he lived in La Plata . In June of that year he took part as a delegate at the Republican National Convention in St. Louis , where William McKinley was nominated as a presidential candidate. In the congressional elections of 1896 Mudd was re-elected to the US House of Representatives in the fifth constituency of Maryland, where he succeeded Charles Edward Coffin on March 4, 1897 . After six re-elections, he was able to complete seven legislative terms there by March 3, 1911. During this time the Spanish-American War of 1898 fell . From 1907 Mudd was chairman of the Justice Department's Expenditure Control Committee.

Sydney Mudd died in Philadelphia on October 21, 1911, the same year he left Congress. His son Sydney also became a congressman for Maryland.

Web links

• Sydney Emanuel Mudd in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)

• Sydney Emanuel Mudd in the database of Find a Grave (English)