Linwood Leon Clark (March 21, 1876 – November 18, 1965) was a

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who represented the second Congressional district of the state of

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from 1929 to 1931.

Biography

Clark was born in

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, and attended the public schools as a youth. He graduated from the

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, in 1899, from the American University of Harriman in

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, in 1902, and from the law department of the

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in 1904. He was admitted to the bar the same year and commenced practice in

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, Maryland. He also completed a

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course in railway transportation in 1919. He married Linnie Habersank on July 24, 1907, and they had two children. In 1926 Clark was an unsuccessful candidate for election to U.S. Congress, but two years later was successful, serving one term from March 4, 1929, to March 3, 1931. He was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1930, and resumed the practice of law in Baltimore. He served as judge of the circuit court of Maryland, fifth judicial district from 1935 to 1938. He practiced law in

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, where he died in 1965. He is interred in Woodlawn Cemetery of Baltimore.

References

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