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Senate Years of Service: 1963-1969 Party: Democrat
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BREWSTER, Daniel Baugh, a Representative and a Senator from Maryland; born in Baltimore
County, Md., November 23, 1923; educated at Gilman School, Baltimore, Md., St.
Pauls School, Concord, N.H., Princeton University, and Johns Hopkins
University; during the Second World War enlisted as a private in the United
States Marine Corps in 1942; commissioned as a second lieutenant in 1943 and
served until 1946; graduated from the University of Maryland Law School in
1949; admitted to the bar in 1949 and commenced practice in Towson, Md.;
member, Maryland house of delegates 1950-1958; elected as a Democrat to the
Eighty-sixth and Eighty-seventh Congresses (January 3, 1959-January 3, 1963);
was not a candidate for renomination in 1962; elected as a Democrat to the
United States Senate in 1962 and served from January 3, 1963, to January 3,
1969; unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1968; after indictment in 1969,
trial, conviction, and reversal, pleaded no contest in 1975 to a felony charge
of accepting an illegal gratuity while a United States Senator; farmer; was a
resident of Glyndon, Md., until his death due to liver cancer on August 19,
2007; cremated, ashes interred at St. Thomas Episcopal Church Cemetery, Owings
Mills, Md.
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