Stephen Warfield Gambrill

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Stephen Warfield Gambrill (October 2, 1873 – December 19, 1938) was an American politician.

Born near Savage, Maryland, Gambrill attended the common schools and Maryland Agricultural College (now the University of Maryland, College Park. He graduated from the law department of Columbian College (now The George Washington University Law School), Washington, D.C., in 1896, was admitted to the bar in 1897, and practiced in Baltimore, Maryland. He served as a member of the Maryland House of Delegates from 1920 to 1922, and served in the Maryland State Senate in 1924. He was elected from the fifth district of Maryland as a Democrat to the Sixty-eighth Congress to fill the vacancy as a resulte of the death of Sidney E. Mudd II and was reelected to the Sixty-ninth and to the six succeeding Congresses, serving from November 4, 1924 until his death in Washington, D.C. He is interred in Cedar Hill Cemetery.

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• Biography at the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress

Preceded by Sydney Emanuel Mudd II

Representative of the 5th Congressional District of Maryland 1924—1938

Succeeded by Lansdale Ghiselin Sasscer