Marjorie Holt

Marjorie Sewell Holt ( born September 17, 1920 in Birmingham, Alabama) is a former American politician. Between 1973 and 1987, she represented the state of Maryland in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Marjorie Holt visited in 1940 and 1941, the Jacksonville Junior College. After studying law at the University of Florida in 1949, she was admitted in Florida and in 1962 in Maryland as a lawyer. Since 1962, she practiced that profession in Anne Arundel County in Maryland from. Between 1966 and 1972 she was employed by the management of the District Court. Within the district, she served in 1963 to 1965 as election manager. Politically, she joined the Republican Party. From 1971 to 1972 she was a consultant of the Association Republican women in Maryland. In the same period she was also a member of a committee of the state government of Maryland, which dealt with the application and enforcement of laws. In the years 1968, 1976 and 1980 she participated in the respective Republican National Convention as a delegate.

In the congressional elections of 1972, Holt was in the fourth electoral district of Maryland in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where they became the successor of Paul Sarbanes on January 3, 1973. After six elections she was able to complete in Congress until January 3, 1987 seven legislative sessions. In this time were, among others, the end of the Vietnam War and the Watergate scandal. In Congress, she advocated a more independent foreign policy of the United States and was against a subordination to international organizations. In 1986, she opted not to run again.

After the end of their time in the U.S. House of Representatives Marjorie Holt practiced as a lawyer again. In 1987 she was appointed by President Ronald Reagan to the Commission on arms control and disarmament. She is married and spends her life in Severna Park.

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