Sydney Emanuel Mudd (politician, 1885)

Sydney Emanuel Mudd

Sydney Emanuel Mudd (born June 20, 1885 in Charles County , Maryland , †  October 11, 1924 in Baltimore , Maryland) was an American politician . Between 1915 and 1924 he represented the state of Maryland in the US House of Representatives .

Career

Sydney Mudd was the son of the congressman of the same name Sydney Emanuel Mudd (1858-1911). He attended the public schools in his home country. In 1896 he moved to La Plata with his parents . After studying law at Georgetown University in Washington, DC, and his admission to the bar in 1910, he began working as a lawyer. At the same time he embarked on a political career as a member of the Republican Party . In 1909 he ran unsuccessfully for the Maryland House of Representatives. Since 1910 he has lectured on criminal law at Georgetown University. From 1910 to 1914, with a brief break in 1912, he was deputy district attorney. That year he unsuccessfully sought his party's nomination for the congressional elections.

In the congressional elections of 1914 Mudd was then elected to the US House of Representatives in Washington in the fifth constituency of Maryland, where he succeeded Frank Owens Smith on March 4, 1915 . After four re-elections, he could remain in Congress until his death on October 11, 1924 . During this time the First World War fell . The 18th and 19th amendments to the Constitution were ratified in 1918 and 1919 . It was about the ban on trade in alcoholic beverages and the nationwide introduction of women's suffrage .

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)