Background
He was born on June 23, 1894 at Omaha, Douglas County, Nebraska, the son of Nebraska state senator Howard Hammond Baldrige (1864–1928) and Letitia Blanche Coffey and died on January 19, 1985, in Southbury, Connecticut.
United States representative lawyer politician
He was born on June 23, 1894 at Omaha, Douglas County, Nebraska, the son of Nebraska state senator Howard Hammond Baldrige (1864–1928) and Letitia Blanche Coffey and died on January 19, 1985, in Southbury, Connecticut.
He graduated from Omaha High School in 1912. He attended Phillips Academy in Andover, Massachusetts, in 1914 and he graduated in 1918 from Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut where he was a member of Skull and Bones and captain of the wrestling team He was also a member of Psi Upsilon and was a letterman in football at Yale.
In World War I, he served as captain of Battery F, Three Hundred and Thirty-eighth Field Artillery for the United States.
In 1921, he graduated from University of Nebraska–Lincoln College of Law and was admitted to the bar, setting up practice in Omaha.
Early life and ancestors He is buried at Forest Lawn Cemetery (Omaha) in Omaha. Education Marriage and family Political career He served in the Nebraska state house of representatives in 1923 and was a delegate to the 1924 Republican National Convention and the 1928 Republican National Convention. He was elected to the Seventy-second United States Congress as a representative for the second district and served from March 4, 1931, to March 3, 1933.
He was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1932.
Post political career Afterwards, he resumed the practice of law. During the Second World War, he entered the Army on June 10, 1942, and became a major in the United States Army Air Corps.
He was discharged as a colonel on October 25, 1945, resuming law practice with offices in New York City and Washington, District of Columbia He was a resident of Washington, Connecticut, until his death.
He was also a member of Psi Upsilon and was a letterman in football at Yale. Her uncle, William James Connell, was a Nebraska Republican politician and served as a member of the United States House of Representatives for Nebraska"s 1st congressional district.
