Sydney Emanuel Mudd II

Sydney Emanuel Mudd II (June 20, 1885 – October 11, 1924) was an American politician.

Born at "Gallant Green" in Charles County, Maryland, Mudd attended the public schools of Charles County and the District of Columbia. He moved with his parents to La Plata, Maryland, in 1896, and graduated from the academic department of Georgetown University in 1906 and from the law department in 1909. He was an unsuccessful candidate for election to the Maryland House of Delegates in 1909.

Mudd was wadmitted to the bar in 1910 and served as professor of criminal law at Georgetown University Law School in 1910. He was appointed assistant district attorney of the District of Columbia in February 1911 and resigned in March 1911. He was an unsuccessful candidate for nomination in 1912 for election to the Sixty-third Congress, and was reappointed assistant district attorney in July 1912, resigning again in March 1914 to become a candidate for Congress. He was successfully elected from the fifth district of Maryland as a Republican to the Sixty-fourth and to the four succeeding Congresses, serving from March 4, 1915 until his death in Baltimore, Maryland. He is interred in St. Ignatius’ Catholic Church Cemetery at Chapel Point near La Plata.

His father, Sydney Emanuel Mudd I, was also a Congressman from Maryland.

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