William Purington Cole

William Purington Cole, Jr. (born May 11, 1889 in Towson , Maryland , †  September 22, 1957 in Baltimore , Maryland) was an American lawyer and politician . Between 1927 and 1942 he represented the state of Maryland twice in the US House of Representatives ; then he became a federal judge .

Career

William Cole attended the public schools in his home country and then studied construction at the Maryland Agricultural College , now the University of Maryland in College Park, until 1910 . After a subsequent law degree at this educational institution and his license as a lawyer in 1912, he began to work in Towson in this profession. During the First World War , he served from 1917 as a first lieutenant in an infantry unit in the US Army in the European theater of war. After the war he continued his legal practice. At the same time he embarked on a political career as a member of the Democratic Party .

In the 1926 congressional election , Cole was elected to the US House of Representatives in Washington, DC in the second constituency of Maryland , where he succeeded Millard Tydings on March 4, 1927 . Since he was defeated by the Republican Linwood Clark in 1928 , he was only able to complete one term in Congress until March 3, 1929 . After that he practiced as a lawyer again. In 1930 Cole was re-elected to Congress in the second district of Maryland, where he replaced Clark on March 4, 1931. After five re-elections he was able to remain there until his resignation on October 26, 1942. During his time in Congress, the New Deal laws of the federal government under President Franklin D. Roosevelt were passed there since 1933 . In addition, in 1933 the 20th and 21st amendments were ratified.

Cole's resignation came after his appointment as a judge at the United States Court of Customs . He remained a federal judge until his death in 1957; since 1952 he worked at the United States Court of Customs and Patent Appeals . William Cole also served on the Smithsonian Institution's governing body from 1940 to 1943 . Since 1931 he was on the board of directors of the University of Maryland. In 1944 he became its chairman. He died in Baltimore on September 22, 1957 and was buried in Arlington National Cemetery , Virginia .

Web links

• William Purington Cole in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)

• William Purington Cole in the database of Find a Grave (English)