Society of Senates Past
Roster

JOSEPH D. TYDINGS
Democrat, District Harford County.

Born in Asheville, Buncombe County, NC, May 4, 1928.  Adoptive son of Millard Evelyn Tydings.  Attended Harford County public schools; McDonogh School, 1946; University of Maryland, B.A., 1950; University of Maryland Law School, LL.B., 1953.

General Assembly:
Member, House of Delegates, 1955-61.  Resigned March 24, 1961.

Private Career and Other Public Service:
Served in U.S. Army, Army of Occupation, European Theater of Operations after World War II, corporal, Sixth Constabulary Regiment, 1946-48.  Private law practice.  U.S. Attorney for Maryland, 1961-63.  Chair, Commission to Study the General Insurance Laws of the State.  Member, Commission to Study the Physical Fitness of Maryland Youth; Committee to Study the Problems Affecting the Laws Regulating Building, Homestead, and Savings and Loan Associations.  U.S. representative at the Interpol Conference in Helsinki, Finland, and at the International Penal Conference in Bellagio, Italy, 1963.  Member of the U.S. Senate, 1965-70.  Chair, Committee on the District of Columbia, 91st Congress.  Member, Junior Association of Commerce; Junior Bar Association; Maryland Bar Association, admitted 1952; Moose; VFW.

Compiled March 16, 2000 from the biographical files of the Maryland Manual, ©Maryland State Archives.and from the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress on-line:  http://bioguide.congress.gov/biosearch/biosearch.asp.