11 Facts About DeWitt Hyde

DeWitt Stephen Hyde was an American attorney and politician who served as a member of the United States House of Representatives for Maryland's 6th congressional district from 1953 to 1959.

DeWitt Hyde went on to George Washington University, where he received his Juris Doctor in 1935.

DeWitt Hyde was admitted to the District of Columbia Bar the same year he graduated and commenced the practice of law in Washington, DC He worked with the Farm Credit Administration for three years before moving to Maryland in 1938, where he continued law work.

In March 1943, during World War II, DeWitt Hyde entered the United States Navy as a lieutenant, junior grade.

DeWitt Hyde served in the South Pacific, and was separated from the service as a lieutenant commander in May 1946.

DeWitt Hyde began his political career with service in the Maryland House of Delegates from 1947 to 1950.

DeWitt Hyde was later a member of the Maryland Senate in 1951 and 1952.

In 1952, DeWitt Hyde was elected as a Republican to the Eighty-third, Eighty-fourth, and Eighty-fifth Congresses, where he served from January 3,1953, to January 3,1959.

DeWitt Hyde did not sign the 1956 Southern Manifesto and voted in favor of the Civil Rights Act of 1957.

DeWitt Hyde was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1958 to the Eighty-sixth Congress, and returned to the practice of law.

DeWitt Hyde was a resident of Bethesda, Maryland, where he died in 1986.