米勒德·伊夫林·廷斯，国会议员，医学博士(1890-1961)

蒂丁斯，米勒德·伊夫林(约瑟夫·戴维斯·泰丁斯的父亲)，马里兰州众议员和参议员;1890年4月6日出生于马里兰州哈福德县的Havre de Grace;在哈福德县的公立学校上学;1910年毕业于马里兰农业学院(现为马里兰大学);1911年在西弗吉尼亚州的巴尔的摩俄亥俄铁路公司从事土木工程;在马里兰州巴尔的摩市的马里兰大学法学院学习法律;1913年获得律师资格并开始在Havre de Grace执业;1916-1921年，州议会议员;1920-1922年众议院议长;他曾在得克萨斯州伊格尔帕斯的墨西哥边境担任二等兵。, 1916; enlisted as a private in the First World War in 1917; promoted to lieutenant colonel and division machine-gun officer in 1918; served in Germany with the Army of Occupation; discharged from the service in 1919; author; member, State senate 1922-1923; elected as a Democrat to the Sixty-eighth and Sixty-ninth Congresses (March 4, 1923-March 3, 1927); was not a candidate for renomination in 1926, having become a candidate for United States Senator; elected as a Democrat to the United States Senate in 1926, 1932, 1938 and 1944 and served from March 4, 1927, to January 3, 1951; was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1950; chairman, Committee on Territories and Insular Possessions (Seventy-third through Seventy-ninth Congresses), Committee on Armed Services (Eighty-first Congress); nominated in 1956 as Democratic candidate for the United States Senate but withdrew before election due to ill health; engaged in the practice of law in Washington, D.C., and Baltimore, Md.; died at his farm, âOakington,â near Havre de Grace, Md., February 9, 1961; interment in Angel Hill Cemetery.

参考书目

美国国家传记;美国传记词典;Keith, Caroline H。《地狱与棕色骡子:参议员米勒德·e·泰丁斯传》．兰哈姆，MD:麦迪逊图书，1991;小菲利普·格兰特:《马里兰州媒体对罗斯福与泰丁斯对峙的反应》马里兰历史杂志68(冬季1973):422-37。

资料来源:美国国会传记目录，1771年至今