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Biographical Directory of the American Congress, 1774-1949
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Tydings, Millard Evelyn
Tydings, Millard Evelyn, a Representative and a Senator from Maryland; born in Havre de Grace, Harford County, Md., April 6, 1890; attended the public schools of Harford County; was graduated from Maryland Agricultural College (now the University of Maryland) in 1910; engaged in civil engineering with the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad in West Virginia in 1911; studied law at the University of Maryland Law School, Baltimore,Md.; was admitted to the bar and commenced practice in Havre de Grace in 1913; member of the State house of delegates 1915-1921; speaker of the house 1919-1921; served as a private on the Mexican border at Eagle Pass, Tex., from June to November 1916; enlisted as a private in the First World War on April 6, 1917; became second lieutenant April 7, 1917, first lieutenant August 6, 1917, and captain January 12, 1918; sailed for France in June 1918; participated in the defense of the center sector, Haute-Alsace, from July to September 1918, and in the Meuse-Argonne from September 1918 until the signing of the Armistice on November 11, 1918; promoted to major, One Hundred and Eleventh Machine Gun Battalion, September 4, 1918, and to lieutenant colonel and division machine-gun officer on November 7, 1918; awarded the Distinguished Service Medal, the Distinguished Service Cross, the Distinguished Service Star of the Commonwealth of the Philippines, and received citations for meritorious and conspicuous service from Generals Pershing, Morton, and Upton; served in Germany with the Army of Occupation; honor graduate, School of Musketry, Fort Sill, Okla., and the Second Corps Machine Gun School, Chatillon-sur-Seine; also graduated from the Army Center of Artillery Studies, Trier, Germany; discharged from the service May 31, 1919; author of "Machine Gunners of the Blue and Gray," "Before and After Prohibition," and "Counter-Attack"; member of the State senate 1921-1923; elected as a Democrat to the Sixty-eighth and Sixty-ninth Congresses (March 4, 1923-March 3, 1927); was not a candidate for renomination in 1926, having become a candidate for United States Senator; elected as a Democrat to the United States Senate in 1926, 1932, 1938, and again in 1944 for the term ending January 3, 1951.
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Chicago:
U.S. Congress, "Tydings, Millard Evelyn," Biographical Directory of the American Congress, 1774-1949 in U.S. Congress, Biographical Directory of the American Congress, 1774–1949 (Washington, D.C.: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1950), P.1939 1940. Original Sources, accessed July 18, 2025, http://www.originalsources.com/Document.aspx?DocID=DMQJZB97SNW878B.
MLA:
U.S. Congress. "Tydings, Millard Evelyn." Biographical Directory of the American Congress, 1774-1949, in U.S. Congress, Biographical Directory of the American Congress, 1774–1949 (Washington, D.C.: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1950), P.1939, page 1940. Original Sources. 18 Jul. 2025. http://www.originalsources.com/Document.aspx?DocID=DMQJZB97SNW878B.
Harvard:
U.S. Congress, 'Tydings, Millard Evelyn' in Biographical Directory of the American Congress, 1774-1949. cited in , U.S. Congress, Biographical Directory of the American Congress, 1774–1949 (Washington, D.C.: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1950), P.1939, pp.1940. Original Sources, retrieved 18 July 2025, from http://www.originalsources.com/Document.aspx?DocID=DMQJZB97SNW878B.
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