Stephen Warfield Gambrill

Stephen Warfield Gambrill (* October 2, 1873 in Savage, Howard County, Maryland, † December 19, 1938 in Washington DC ) was an American politician. Between 1924 and 1938 he represented the state of Maryland in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Stephen Gambrill attended the common schools and then studied at the Maryland Agricultural College, later the University of Maryland at College Park. After a subsequent study law at Columbian College, now George Washington University, and his 1897 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. From 1920 to 1922 he sat in the House of Representatives from Maryland; in 1924 he was a member of the State Senate.

After the death of Mr Sydney Emanuel Mudd Gambrill was chosen due to the election for the fifth seat of Maryland as his successor in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington, where he took up his new mandate on 4 November 1924. After seven elections he could remain until his death on 19 December 1938 at the Congress. At the time of his death he had been elected for the next term of office. Since 1933, most of the New Deal legislation of the Federal Government were adopted under President Franklin D. Roosevelt in Congress.