John Charles Linthicum
John Charles Linthicum (* November 26, 1867 in Linthicum Heights, Anne Arundel County, Maryland, † October 5, 1932 in Baltimore, Maryland ) was an American politician. Between 1911 and 1932 he represented the state of Maryland in the U.S. House of Representatives.
Career
John Linthicum attended public schools in his home and then studied until 1886 at the Maryland State Normal School in Baltimore. He then worked for several years in the teaching profession. Then he continued his education at Johns Hopkins University, where he studied history and political science. After studying law at the University of Maryland and his 1890 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. In 1904 and 1905 he sat in the House of Representatives of Maryland; 1906-1909 he was a member of the State Senate. In 1907 Linthicum ran unsuccessfully for the office of Mayor of Baltimore. From 1908 to 1912, he was a Judge Advocate General on the staff of Governor Austin Lane Crothers.
In the congressional elections of 1910 Linthicum was in the fourth electoral district of Maryland in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he became the successor of John Gill on March 4, 1911. After ten elections he could remain until his death on October 5, 1932 at the Congress. In this time of the First World War fell. Furthermore, in the years 1913, 1919 and 1920, the 16th, the 17th, the 18th and the 19th Amendment to the Constitution ratified. From 1931 to 1933 Linthicum was chairman of the Foreign Relations Committee. In 1924 he took part in New York as a delegate to the Democratic National Convention. In Congress, he campaigned for the establishment in 1933, repealing the 18th Amendment. It was about the Prohibition law. He brought also the bill, Banner was declared as the national anthem by the The Star- Spangled. At the time of his death John Linthicum had already been nominated for re-election.