Harry Streett Baldwin

Harry Streett Baldwin ( born August 21, 1894 in Baldwin, Baltimore County, Maryland, † October 19, 1952 in Baltimore, Maryland ) was an American politician. Between 1943 and 1947 he represented the state of Maryland in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Harry Baldwin attended the common schools and studied at the University of Maryland after. He then became owner of a farm. At the same time he proposed as a member of the Democratic Party launched a political career. In 1931 he sat in the House of Representatives of Maryland; 1934-1942 he was a member of the District Council. Since 1938, he was its president. In the congressional elections of 1942, Baldwin was in the second electoral district of Maryland in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he became the successor of William Purington Cole on January 3, 1943. After a re-election he was able to complete in Congress until January 3, 1947 two legislative sessions. During his time in Congress, the end of World War II fell.

1946 renounced Baldwin on another Congress candidate. Instead, he sought unsuccessfully to his party's nomination for the gubernatorial elections. In the following years he worked again in agriculture. In 1950 he was again a member and later chairman of the District Council in Baltimore County. He died on October 19, 1952 in Baltimore, and was buried in Jacksonville.