 AKA Millard Evelyn Tydings
Born:6-Apr-1890
Birthplace:Havre de Grace, MD
Died:9-Feb-1961
Location of death:Havre de Grace, MD
Cause of death: unspecified
Remains: Buried, Angel Hill Cemetery, Havre de Grace, MD
Gender: Male
Religion:Anglican/Episcopalian
Race or Ethnicity: White
Occupation: Politician
Party Affiliation: Democratic Nationality: United States
Executive summary: US Senator from Maryland, 1927-51 Military service: US Army (1916-19) Millard E. Tydings was a World War I war hero, later elected to Congress and subsequently the Senate. He sought to repeal prohibition, and sponsored legislation that granted independence to the Philippine Islands -- the first time in known history that a colonial possession was granted independence without a war. He was a fierce opponent of fellow DemocratFranklin D. Roosevelt's "New Deal", an outspoken advocate of nuclear disarmament, and a more soft-spoken opponent of SenatorJoseph McCarthy during the 1940s and 1950s. McCarthy provided key support for Republican challengerJohn Marshall Butler in an attack-filled campaign that unseated Tydings in the 1950 Senate election. Tydings' father-in-law,Joseph E. Davies, was US Ambassador to the USSR, and his son, Joseph Davies Tydings, was later a Senator representing Maryland. Father: Millard Fillmore Tydings (gov't bureaucrat)
Mother: Mary Bond O'Neill Tydings
Wife: Eleanor Davies Cheesborough Tydings Ditzen (dau. of AmbassadorJoseph E. Davies)
Son:Joseph D. Tydings (adopted, US Senator, b. 1928)
University:BS Mechanical Engineering, University of Maryland (1910)
Law School:University of Maryland, Baltimore
Army Distinguished Service Medal
Distinguished Service Cross
US Senator, Maryland (1927-51)
US Congressman, Maryland 2nd (1923-27)
Maryland State Senate (1922-23)
Maryland State House of Delegates (1920-22)
Alfalfa Club 1942
Freemasonry
Author of books:
The Machine Gunners of the Blue and Gray Division (1920)
Before and After Prohibition (1930)
Counter-Attack: A Battle Plan to Defeat the Depression (1933)
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