Linwood Clark

Linwood Leon Clark ( born March 21, 1876 in Aberdeen, Maryland, † November 18, 1965 in Annapolis, Maryland ) was an American politician. Between 1929 and 1931 he represented the state of Maryland in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Linwood Clark attended the public schools of his home. Then he studied until 1899 at the Milton Academy in Baltimore and at the American University of Harriman, Tennessee. After a subsequent law studies at the University of Maryland and his 1904 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 Republican Party launched a political career. In 1926 he ran unsuccessfully for even the U.S. House of Representatives.

In the congressional elections of 1928, Clark was but then in the second electoral district of Maryland in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he succeeded William Purington Cole took on 4 March 1929 that he had beaten in the election. Since he lost in 1930 against Cole, he was able to complete only one term in Congress until March 3, 1931. This was marked by the events of the Great Depression.

After the end of his time in the U.S. House of Representatives Linwood Clark practiced as a lawyer again. Between 1935 and 1938 he served as a judge in the Fifth Judicial District of the State of. After that he worked as a lawyer again. He died on 18 November 1965 in Annapolis and was buried in Baltimore.