Charles Clagett Marbury

Charles Clagett Marbury
Personal details
Born1898
Beacon Hill Farm Upper Marlboro MD
DiedJuly 19, 1991[2]
Washington, D.C.[1]
Political partyDemocratic
SpouseKathryn Worthington Lancaster[1]

Charles Clagett Marbury (1898 – July 19, 1991) was an American politician and judge, who served as a justice of the Maryland Court of Appeals from 1960 to 1969.[3]

Marbury was elected to the Maryland House of Delegates in 1931 and served until he was elected to the state Senate in 1941.[1] He was a member of the Democratic Party.[4] A short while later, he was appointed to serve as a Circuit Court judge, and later, to one of two newly created seats on the Court of Appeals.[1]

He was born in Upper Marlboro, Maryland and attended the Emerson Preparatory School in Washington, D.C.[2] and received a degree from the Johns Hopkins University in 1922.[1] Part of his studies were conducted at the University of Bordeaux where he remained after serving in the field artillery of the 29th Division in World War I.[1]

He studied law at the University of Maryland School of Law and eventually graduated from Georgetown University law school in 1925.[1]

He was a member of Trinity Episcopal Church, the Society of the Cincinnati and the Southern Maryland Society, which awarded him its Distinguished Member Award in 1989.[1]

He died on July 19, 1991.[2]

References

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  1. ^ a b c d e f g h i "Charles Marbury, retired judge dies". The Baltimore Sun. July 21, 1991. Retrieved 20 November 2011.
  2. ^ a b c "Retired Md. Judge, Legislator Charles C. Marbury, 91, Dies". The Washington Post. 20 July 1991.
  3. ^ "Maryland Court of Appeals Judges, 1778–". Archives of Maryland. Retrieved September 22, 2021.
  4. ^ "Maryland Manual, 1940-1941" (PDF). Maryland State Archives. Retrieved October 15, 2024.


Political offices
Preceded by
Newly established seat
Judge of the Maryland Court of Appeals
1960–1969
Succeeded by