and Economics, is also named for him. Tydings' 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 wife was Eleanor Tydings Ditzen. Her father was Joseph E. Davies, who served as US Ambassador to the USSR, Belgium and Luxembourg. Tydings' granddaughter Alexandra Tydings is an actress. The law firm which Millard Tydings formed with Morris Rosenberg continues its law practice today in Baltimore, Maryland. See also Notes References Retrieved on 2008-01-25 Millard E. Tydings Papers at the University of Maryland Libraries Bibliography Grant Jr., Philip A. "Maryland Press Reaction to the Roosevelt-Tydings Confrontation." Maryland Historical Magazine 68#4 (1973): 422-37. Keith, Caroline H., For Hell and a Brown Mule: The Biography of Senator Millard E. Tydings, Madison Books, 1991. External links 1890 births 1961 deaths People from Havre de Grace, Maryland Military personnel from Maryland Democratic Party Maryland state senators Victims of McCarthyism Speakers of the Maryland House of Delegates United States Army officers United States Army personnel of World War I Candidates in the 1940 United States presidential election Democratic Party United States senators from Maryland University of Maryland Francis King Carey School of Law alumni University of Maryland, College Park alumni Democratic Party members of the United States House of Representatives from Maryland 20th-century American politicians