Stephen_W._Gambrill

Stephen Warfield Gambrill

Stephen Warfield Gambrill

American politician


Stephen Warfield Gambrill (October 2, 1873 – December 19, 1938) was an American politician.

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Early life

Haddie Gorman in 1895

Born near Savage, Maryland, to Stephen Gambrill and Kate (Gorman) Gambrill, he attended the common schools and Maryland Agricultural College (now the University of Maryland, College Park. He graduated from the law department of Columbian College (now The George Washington University Law School), Washington, D.C., in 1896, was admitted to the bar in 1897, and practiced in Baltimore, Maryland. In 1900, he married Haddie D. Gorman (who died in 1923).[1]

Career

Gambrill served as a member of the Maryland House of Delegates from 1920 to 1922, and served in the Maryland State Senate in 1924. He was elected from the fifth district of Maryland as a Democrat to the Sixty-eighth Congress to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Sidney E. Mudd II and was reelected to the Sixty-ninth and to the six succeeding Congresses, serving from November 4, 1924, until his death in Washington, D.C.

Death

He died on December 19, 1938, and is interred in Cedar Hill Cemetery, Suitland, Maryland.

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References

  • United States Congress. "Stephen Warfield Gambrill (id: G000035)". Biographical Directory of the United States Congress.
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