Sydney Emanuel Mudd II

Sydney Emanuel Mudd ( born June 20, 1885 Charles County, Maryland, † October 11, 1924 in Baltimore, Maryland ) was an American politician. Between 1915 and 1924 he represented the state of Maryland in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Sydney Mudd was the son of the congressman Sydney Emanuel Mudd ( 1858-1911 ). He attended the common schools. In 1896 he moved with his parents to La Plata. After studying law at Georgetown University in the capital city Washington DC and his 1910 was admitted to the bar he began to work as a lawyer. At the same time he proposed as a member of the Republican Party launched a political career. In 1909, he ran unsuccessfully for the House of Representatives from Maryland. Since 1910, he stopped at the Georgetown University lectures on criminal law. From 1910 to 1914 he was with a brief interruption in 1912, Deputy District Attorney. This year, he unsuccessfully sought the nomination of his party for the congressional elections.

In the congressional elections of 1914 Mudd but was then selected in the fifth electoral district of Maryland in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington, where he became the successor of Frank Owens Smith on March 4, 1915. After four elections he could remain until his death on October 11, 1924 in Congress. In this time of the First World War fell. In the years 1918 and 1919, the 18th and the 19th Amendment to the Constitution were ratified. It was about the ban on the trade in alcoholic beverages or to the nationwide introduction of women's suffrage.