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Senate Years of Service: 1927-1951 Party: Democrat
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TYDINGS, Millard Evelyn, (father of Joseph Davies Tydings),
a Representative and a Senator from Maryland; born in Havre de
Grace, Harford County, Md., April 6, 1890; attended the public schools of
Harford County; graduated from Maryland Agricultural College (now the
University of Maryland) in 1910; engaged in civil engineering with the
Baltimore Ohio Railroad in West Virginia in 1911; studied law at the University
of Maryland Law School, Baltimore, Md.; admitted to the bar and commenced
practice in Havre de Grace in 1913; member, State house of delegates 1916-1921;
speaker of the house 1920-1922; served as a private on the Mexican border at
Eagle Pass, Tex., 1916; enlisted as a private in the First World War in 1917;
promoted to lieutenant colonel and division machine-gun officer in 1918; served
in Germany with the Army of Occupation; discharged from the service in 1919;
author; member, State senate 1922-1923; elected as a Democrat to the
Sixty-eighth and Sixty-ninth Congresses (March 4, 1923-March 3, 1927); was not
a candidate for renomination in 1926, having become a candidate for United
States Senator; elected as a Democrat to the United States Senate in 1926,
1932, 1938 and 1944 and served from March 4, 1927, to January 3, 1951; was an
unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1950; chairman, Committee on
Territories and Insular Possessions (Seventy-third through Seventy-ninth
Congresses), Committee on Armed Services (Eighty-first Congress); nominated in
1956 as Democratic candidate for the United States Senate but withdrew before
election due to ill health; engaged in the practice of law in Washington, D.C.,
and Baltimore, Md.; died at his farm, Oakington, near Havre de Grace, Md.,
February 9, 1961; interment in Angel Hill Cemetery.
BibliographyAmerican National Biography;
Dictionary of American Biography; Keith, Caroline H.
For Hell and a Brown Mule: The Biography of Senator Millard E.
Tydings. Lanham, MD: Madison Books, 1991; Grant, Philip, Jr. Maryland
Press Reaction to the Roosevelt-Tydings Confrontation.
Maryland Historical Magazine 68 (Winter 1973): 422-37.
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