CONGRESSMAN MUDD DIES DURING RE-ELECTION BID
Baltimore, Maryland (JFK+50) On October 12, 1924, the Sunday Star reports the death last evening of Representative Sydney E. Mudd* (R-Maryland), a candidate for re-election.
Congressman Mudd's father had been "a virtual dictator" in Republican politics in Southern Maryland for two decades.
Rep. Mudd was a member of the Naval Affairs Committee of the U.S. House of Representatives and had great interest in the welfare of the District of Columbia in which he grew up.
*Sydney Emanuel Mudd II (1885-1924) was born in Charles County, Maryland & graduated from Georgetown University, BA 1906, LLB 1909. SEM II served in the US House of Representatives 1915-1924.
SOURCE
"Sydney Mudd Dies In Mid-Campaign," The Sunday Star, Washington, D.C., October 12, 1924, Chronicling America, Library of Congress, www.loc.gov/
