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Tydings was born on April 6, 1890 in Havre de Grace, located in Harford County.
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Tydings was born on April 6, 1890 in Havre de Grace, located in Harford County.
He attended the public schools of Harford County and graduated from Maryland Agricultural College (now the University of Maryland, College Park) in 1910. He engaged in civil engineering with the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad in West Virginia in 1911. He studied law at the University of Maryland School of Law, in Baltimore.
In 1913 he was admitted to the Maryland bar and opened a law practice in Havre de Grace. In 1916, Tydings was elected as a Democrat to the Maryland House of Delegates, thus beginning a thirty-five-year career in public life.
In that same year he served as a private in the U. S. Army's Mexican border campaign. He was an officer in the Allied Expeditionary Force in World War I, advancing to the rank of lieutenant colonel in the Twenty-ninth Division and participating in the Haute Alsace and Meuse-Argonne offensives.
After the war Tydings returned to public life. From 1920 to 1922 he served as speaker of the Maryland House of Delegates. Then he was elected to the Maryland State Senate, and in 1924 to the U. S. House of Representatives. Two years later he was elected to the U. S. Senate.
At that time he published The Machine Gunners: Before and After Prohibition (1930) and Counter-Attack, a Battle Plan to Defeat the Depression (1933). He was also an amateur playwright and an accomplished pianist.
In 1944 he was easily reelected to the Senate for a fourth term as a self-described strong "states' rights man" and proponent of reducing government spending.
In February 1950, after Republican Senator Joseph R. McCarthy of Wisconsin had charged that Communists in the State Department were shaping American foreign policy, Tydings was named chairman of a special Senate Foreign Relations Committee subcommittee to investigate the allegations. His keen mind and biting wit, so often employed to ridicule the domestic programs of Presidents Roosevelt and Harry S. Truman, were now aimed at the junior senator from Wisconsin. Tydings announced to the Senate in July that there was not "an ounce of truth in Mr. McCarthy's charges, " which he labeled "contemptible. " He accused McCarthy of perpetrating a hoax on the American public. When McCarthy responded with cries of "whitewash" and an accusation that Tydings was Truman's "whimpering lap dog, " Tydings countered with an offer of $5, 000 for evidence that would result in the indictment of any of the card-carrying Communists McCarthy claimed were in the State Department. McCarthy offered no evidence; instead, he actively backed John Marshall Butler's gutter campaign against Tydings' candidacy for a fifth term in 1950. Aided by a faked composite photograph showing Tydings in apparently friendly conversation with former Communist party leader Earl Browder, Butler defeated Tydings. A Senate investigating committee later criticized the "back-street" campaign conducted against Tydings by "non-Maryland outsiders. "
Tydings won his party's nomination for the Senate in 1956, but withdrew from the race due to poor health.
He died on February 9, 1961 at his estate near Havre de Grace, Md.
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During the Great Depression, Tydings rose to prominence as a conservative Democratic opponent of President Franklin D. Roosevelt's New Deal. He voted against unemployment relief, low-cost housing, and such basic New Deal laws as the Agricultural Adjustment Act, the National Industrial Recovery Act, the National Youth Administration, and the Tennessee Valley Authority. He labeled the many New Deal agencies "alphabetical monstrosities, " and called constantly for economy in government.
He bitterly opposed President Roosevelt's plan to reorganize the Supreme Court in 1937. The following year Roosevelt unsuccessfully attempted to "purge" Tydings when the latter sought his third term. A leader of the southern Democratic-Republican conservative coalition in Congress, Tydings continued to oppose Roosevelt's domestic policies throughout World War II.
After World War II, Tydings battled for nuclear disarmament. He was one of the ten senators appointed in October 1945 to the Special Committee on Atomic Energy. "It is up to the United States to find ways of creating friendships between nations to prevent a push-button war that will be over before most people know it began, " he said. He advocated disarmament inspection forces "composed largely of Americans, " and then added, "I'm not so much interested in sovereignty--I want to survive. "
Quotations: "If I can't vote my sentiments, " he said early in his Senate career, "to hell with this job. "
Tydings was known as the goad of the Senate, famed for his sharp mind and even sharper tongue.
In 1935 Tydings, long one of Washington's most eligible bachelors, married Eleanor Davies Cheseborough, daughter of Joseph E. Davies, ambassador to Moscow; they had two children.
His adopted son, Joe Tydings, was elected to a term as a U. S. Senator from Maryland in 1964, but was defeated for re-election in 1970, serving from 1965 to 1971.
His granddaughter Alexandra Tydings is a former actress.