Albert Alexander Blakeney (September 28, 1850 – October 15, 1924) was a

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who represented the second Congressional district of Maryland from 1901 to 1903 and from 1921 to 1923. Blakeney was born in Riderwood, Maryland. He learned the business of cotton manufacturing and established the large cotton-duck mills located in

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. Blakeney served as commissioner of

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, from 1895 to 1899. In 1900, Blakeney was elected as a Republican to Congress, serving one full term from March 4, 1901, to March 3, 1903. He declined to be a candidate for renomination in 1902. He resumed his former business activities in Franklinville, and was again elected to Congress in 1920, serving another term from March 4, 1921, to March 3, 1923. He was an unsuccessful candidate for re-election in 1922, and died in

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, Maryland, two years later. He is interred in the Baltimore Cemetery.

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* 1850 births 1924 deaths People from Ruxton-Riderwood, Maryland Republican Party members of the United States House of Representatives from Maryland {{Maryland-politician-stub