Carlton R. Sickles

Carlton Ralph Sickles ( born June 15, 1921 in Hamden, Connecticut, † January 17, 2004 in Bethesda, Maryland ) was an American politician. Between 1963 and 1967 he represented the state of Maryland in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Carlton Sickles attended until 1939, the Roosevelt High School in Washington DC Then he studied until 1943 at the city's Georgetown University. During the Second World War, he served 1943-1946 in the U.S. Army. After a subsequent law degree from Georgetown University and his 1948 was admitted as a lawyer, he began to work in this profession. In the years 1951 and 1952 he worked for the Air Force. From 1960 to 1966 legal Sickles held lectures at Georgetown University. At the same time he proposed as a member of the Democratic Party launched a political career. Between 1955 and 1962 he sat in the House of Representatives from Maryland. From 1955 to 1966 he was a member of the founding committee of the Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority, the local transport in the metropolitan area of Washington DC should organize. In the years 1964 and 1968, he participated as a delegate to the Democratic National Conventions relevant.

In the congressional elections of 1962, Sickles was elected for the eighth seat of the State of Maryland in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington, where he exercised his mandate from 3 January 1963. After a re-election he was able to complete in Congress until January 3, 1967 two legislative sessions. These were determined by the events of the civil rights movement and the beginning of the Vietnam War.

1966 renounced Carlton Sickles on another candidacy. Instead, he sought unsuccessfully to his party's nomination for the upcoming gubernatorial election. In the years 1967 and 1968 he was a member of a meeting on the revision of the Constitution of Maryland. He was also president of the company Carday Associates Inc. Sickles was also a member of the Planning Commission of the State of Washington and the Metropolitan Transit Authority. In 1986, he unsuccessfully sought the nomination of his party for the congressional elections of this year. He died on 17 January 2004 in Bethesda.