Dudley Roe

Dudley George Roe ( born March 23, 1881 in Sudlersville, Queen Anne's County, Maryland, † January 4, 1970 in Chestertown, Maryland ) was an American politician. Between 1945 and 1947 he represented the state of Maryland in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Dudley Roe attended the public schools of his home and thereafter until 1903, the Washington College in Chestertown. After a subsequent law studies at the University of Maryland in Baltimore and his 1905 was admitted to the bar he began to work in Baltimore in this profession. At the same time he proposed as a member of the Democratic Party launched a political career. Between 1907 and 1909 he sat in the House of Representatives from Maryland. From 1923 to 1935, and again in 1939 to 1943 he was a member of the State Senate; From 1939 he headed the Democratic group. In June 1928 he was a delegate to the Democratic National Convention in Houston, on the Al Smith was nominated as a presidential candidate.

In the congressional elections of 1944, Roe was the first electoral district of Maryland in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he became the successor of David Ward Jenkins on January 3, 1945. Since he has not been confirmed in 1946, he was able to complete only one term in Congress until January 3, 1947. During this time, ended the Second World War. After the end of his time in the U.S. House of Representatives Dudley Roe worked as a farmer, grain merchant and banker in Sudlersville. At first he was a Director and later to 1967, President of the Sudlersville Bank of Maryland. After that, he was Head of the Supervisory Board. He died on January 4, 1970 in Chestertown, and was buried in Sudlersville.

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