Sydney Emanuel Mudd II
Sydney Emanuel Mudd II | |
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U.S. Representative from Maryland's 5th congressional district | |
In office March 4, 1915 – October 11, 1924 |
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Preceded by | Frank O. Smith |
Succeeded by | Stephen W. Gambrill |
Personal details | |
Born | Gallant Green, Charles County, Maryland |
June 20, 1885
Died | Script error: The function "death_date_and_age" does not exist. Baltimore, Maryland |
Nationality | American |
Political party | Republican |
Relations | Sydney Emanuel Mudd |
Alma mater | Georgetown University |
Occupation | Lawyer |
Religion | Catholic |
Sydney Emanuel Mudd II (June 20, 1885 – October 11, 1924) was an American attorney and politician from Maryland's 5th congressional district, elected to several terms as a US Representative in Congress, dying in office.
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Early life and education
Born at his parents' plantation in Gallant Green, Charles County, Maryland, Mudd was the son of Sydney Emanuel Mudd, who became a US Congressman, and his wife. He was raised Catholic, attending the public schools of Charles County and the District of Columbia. He moved with his parents to La Plata, Maryland, in 1896. He graduated from Georgetown University in 1906 with a B.A., and from its law school in 1909 with a law degree.
Law career
Mudd was admitted to the bar in 1910, and served as professor of criminal law at Georgetown University Law School in 1910.
Like his father, Mudd joined the Republican Party. He was appointed assistant district attorney of the District of Columbia, a federal position, in February 1911.
Marriage and family
Mudd married and had a family.
Political career
Mudd's father had told him he would not be seeking re-election, and his last term as Congressman ended in March 1911. Mudd II resigned as assistant district attorney in March 1911 to campaign for the seat as US Congressman from Maryland's 5th congressional district. Mudd did not win the Republican nomination in 1912 to run for election to the Sixty-third Congress. He was reappointed assistant district attorney in July 1912.
In March 1914, Mudd resigned to become a candidate for Congress. He was elected in 1914 from the fifth district of Maryland as a Republican to the Sixty-fourth and to the four succeeding Congresses, serving from March 4, 1915 until his death in Baltimore, Maryland from illness in 1924. He is interred in St. Ignatius’ Catholic Church Cemetery at Chapel Point near La Plata, where his father was also buried.[1]
References
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- Sydney Emanuel Mudd II at the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress
- "Mudd, Sydney Emanuel II", Maryland Biographical Dictionary, pp. 388–390
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Preceded by | Representative of the 5th Congressional District of Maryland 1915–1924 |
Succeeded by Stephen Warfield Gambrill |
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- 1885 births
- 1924 deaths
- Members of the United States House of Representatives from Maryland
- Georgetown University alumni
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- People from Charles County, Maryland
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- 20th-century American politicians
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