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Millard Evelyn Tydings (April 6, 1890 – February 9, 1961) was an American attorney, author, soldier, state legislator, and served as a Democratic Representative and Senator in the United States Congress from Maryland, serving in the House from 1923 to 1927 and in the Senate from 1927 to 1951.
The 1938 United States Senate election in Maryland was held on November 8, 1938. Incumbent Democratic U.S. Senator Millard Tydings was re-elected to a third term in office, easily defeating Republican Oscar Leser.
The Subcommittee on the Investigation of Loyalty of State Department Employees, more commonly referred to as the Tydings Committee, was a subcommittee authorized by S.Res. 231 in February 1950 to look into charges by Joseph R. McCarthy that he had a list of individuals who were known by the Secretary of State to be members of the Communist ...
Incumbent Democratic U.S. Senator Millard Tydings ran for a fifth term in office, but was defeated by Republican John Marshall Butler. Democratic primary
County Millard E. Tydings Democratic Blanchard Randall Republican Margin Total Votes Cast # % # % # % Allegany: 14487 49.74% 14636 50.26% -149 -0.51%
Senator Millard Tydings and Representative John McDuffie co-authored the Tydings–McDuffie Act. The Tydings–McDuffie Act , officially the Philippine Independence Act ( Pub. L. 73–127 , 48 Stat. 456 , enacted March 24, 1934 ), is an Act of Congress that established the process for the Philippines , then an American territory , to become an ...
The Millard E. Tydings Memorial Bridge carries Interstate 95 (I-95) over the Susquehanna River between Cecil County and Harford County, Maryland. The toll bridge carries 29 million vehicles annually. [2] It is upstream from the Thomas J. Hatem Memorial Bridge, which carries the parallel U.S. Route 40 (US 40).
Tydings had defeated Beall's father, Senator James Glenn Beall six years earlier. Tydings's own adoptive father Millard had served as senator as well as Beall Sr., making this a rare dynastic election between the sons of former senators. As of 2024, this was the last time a Republican won the Class 1 Senate seat in Maryland.