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Senate Years of Service: 1965-1971 Party: Democrat
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TYDINGS, Joseph Davies, (son of Millard Evelyn Tydings),
a Senator from Maryland; born in Asheville, Buncombe County, N.C.,
May 4, 1928; attended the public schools of Aberdeen, Md.; graduated from
McDonogh School in 1946, the University of Maryland in 1950, and the University
of Maryland Law School in 1953; served in Army of Occupation, European Theater
of Operations after the Second World War, corporal, Sixth Constabulary
Regiment; admitted to the bar in 1952 and commenced the practice of law;
member, Maryland house of delegates 1955-1961; United States attorney for
Maryland 1961-1963; United States representative at the Interpol Conference in
Helsinki, Finland, and at the International Penal Conference in Bellagio,
Italy, in 1963; elected as a Democrat to the United States Senate in 1964, and
served from January 3, 1965, to January 3, 1971; chairman, Committee on the
District of Columbia (Ninety-first Congress); unsuccessful candidate for
reelection in 1970; member, Board of Regents of the University of Maryland
1974-1984, serving as chairman 1982-1984; member, Board of Regents of the
University System of Maryland 2000-2005; senior counsel, law firm of Dickstein,
Shapiro, Morin and Oshinsky, Washington, D.C.; is a resident of Harford County,
Md.
BibliographyTydings, Joseph D.
Born to Starve. New York: William Morrow & Co., 1970.
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