1. Joseph Davies Tydings was an American lawyer and politician from Maryland.
25 Facts About Joseph Tydings
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Joseph Tydings was raised in Aberdeen, Maryland, and was adopted by his stepfather, Millard Tydings.
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Joseph Tydings went on to graduate from the McDonogh School in 1946.
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Joseph Tydings served in the 6th Constabulary Regiment from 1946 to 1948 during the US Army's post-World War II occupation of Germany and attained the rank of corporal.
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Joseph Tydings was president of the Maryland Young Democrats in the 1950s.
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Joseph Tydings had been admitted to the bar in 1952, before he completed his law degree, and he began to practice soon afterwards.
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Joseph Tydings served as a Delegate from 1955 to 1961, when he was appointed United States Attorney for Maryland by President John F Kennedy, a close friend.
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Joseph Tydings oversaw the prosecution of several people in the savings and loan business.
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In 1963, Joseph Tydings served as the United States representative at the Interpol Conference in Helsinki, Finland, and at the International Penal Conference in Bellagio.
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On January 14,1964, Joseph Tydings officially declared his candidacy, stating he was challenging the "old guard" of the Maryland Democratic Party political machine.
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Joseph Tydings said he would work to bring a "new era of leadership into Maryland".
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Joseph Tydings played a crucial role in the enactment of the federal law governing multidistrict litigation.
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Joseph Tydings expressed interest in serving on the United States Senate Committee on the District of Columbia.
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Joseph Tydings won a place on the DC committee, and was appointed chairman in 1969.
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Joseph Tydings voted in favor of the Voting Rights Act of 1965, the Civil Rights Act of 1968, and the confirmation of Thurgood Marshall to the US Supreme Court.
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One Maryland activist group, Citizens Against Joseph Tydings, was formed solely because of Joseph Tydings' gun registration platform.
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Joseph Tydings was wealthy, and was seen as having an "aloof" disposition.
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On January 10,1976, Joseph Tydings announced his candidacy for his former senate seat, which he argued was taken unfairly in 1970 due to an undisclosed $180,000 gift to the Beall campaign.
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Joseph Tydings worked to relabel himself as more fiscally conservative than Sarbanes, since both candidates were seen as liberal.
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In 1977, Joseph Tydings called for the Board of Regents of the University of Maryland to divestinvestment from South Africa.
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Joseph Tydings later served as a member of Board of Regents of the University System of Maryland from 2000 to 2005.
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Joseph Tydings was a member of the ReFormers Caucus of Issue One.
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Joseph Tydings died in Washington, DC, from cancer, on October 8,2018, at the age of 90.
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Joseph Tydings first married Virginia Reynolds Campbell of Lewes, Delaware, in 1955; they had four children.
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In 1975, Joseph Tydings then married Terry Lynn Huntingdon of Mount Shasta, California, with whom he had one child, actress Alexandra Joseph Tydings.