Lansdale Ghiselin Sasscer

Background

Sasscer was born in Upper Marlboro, Maryland, and graduated from Dickinson School of Law in Carlisle, Pennsylvania in 1914.

Education

Tome School.

Career

He was admitted to the bar the same year and commenced practice in Upper Marlboro. During World War I, he served from 1917 to 1919, being overseas for thirteen months as a first lieutenant in the Fifty-ninth Artillery of the United States Army. He was delegate to the 1924 and 1936 Democratic National Conventions, and vice chairman of the committee on reorganization of the State government in 1939.

Sasscer was elected as a Democrat to the United States. Congress to fill the vacancy left open as a result of the death of Stephen Gambrill, serving from February 3, 1939, to January 3, 1953.

Afterwards, he resumed the practice of law in Upper Marlboro, Maryland. Sasscer"s family has lived in Upper Marlboro since the 1760s.

Sasscer married Agnes Goffren in 1919 and had three children, Agnes Lansdale "Dolly" Sasscer, Lucy Claggett Sasscer and Lansdale Ghiselin Sasscer, Junior.

Sasscer was a resident of Upper Marlboro until his death there in 1964.

Achievements

• Sasscer chose not to run for re-election in 1952, and instead attempted to win election to the United States Senate seat being vacated by Herbert O"Conor, but was not nominated by his party.

Membership

After the War, Sasscer resumed the practice of law, and served as a member of the Maryland State Senate from 1922 to 1938, serving as President of the Senate in 1935 and 1937.

Connections

Father:

Frederick Sasscer

Mother:

Lucy (Clagett) Sasscer

Spouse:

Agnes Coffren

child:

Jr Sasscer

child:

Agnes Lansdale (Mistress Hal B. Clagett Sasscer