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  Kennedy, Ambrose Jerome
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AffiliationDemocratic   
NameAmbrose Jerome Kennedy
Address914 E. Biddle St.
Baltimore, Maryland , United States
EmailNone
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Born January 06, 1893
DiedAugust 29, 1950 (57 years)
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Infoa Representative from Maryland; born in Baltimore Md., January 6, 1893; attended parochial schools, Calvert Hall College, and Polytechnic Institute in Baltimore, Md.; employed as a clerk for an insurance company 1909-1924; engaged in the brokerage and insurance business in 1924; unsuccessful candidate for election to the State house of representatives in 1918; member of the city council 1922-1926; served in the State senate in 1928 and 1929; delegate to the Democratic National Conventions in 1928 and 1932; appointed parole commissioner of Maryland in 1929 and served until elected to Congress; elected as a Democrat to the Seventy-second Congress to fill the vacancy caused by the death of J. Charles Linthicum and on the same day was elected to the Seventy-third Congress; reelected to the Seventy-fourth, Seventy-fifth, and Seventy-sixth Congresses and served from November 8, 1932, to January 3, 1941; chairman, Committee on Claims (Seventy-fourth, Seventy-fifth, and Seventy-sixth Congresses); unsuccessful candidate for renomination in 1940; resumed the brokerage and insurance business in Baltimore, Md.; member of the State Unemployment Compensation Board from June 1943 to September 1945; died in Baltimore, Md., August 29, 1950; interment in the New Cathedral Cemetery.


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  09/08/1942 MD District 4 - D Primary Lost 18.29% (-9.80%)
  05/06/1940 MD District 4 - D Primary Lost 39.31% (-0.24%)
  11/08/1938 MD District 4 Won 50.19% (+0.39%)
  09/12/1938 MD District 4 - D Primary Won 50.33% (+23.51%)
  11/03/1936 MD District 4 Won 51.52% (+7.24%)
  11/06/1934 MD District 4 Won 59.13% (+20.52%)
  09/08/1934 MD District 4 - D Primary Won 52.04% (+26.51%)
  11/08/1932 MD District 4 Won 66.01% (+34.43%)
  11/08/1932 MD District 4 - Special Election Won 100.00% (+100.00%)
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