H. Malcolm Baldrige
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Howard Malcolm Baldrige, or H. Malcolm Baldrige (b. 1894- d. 1985) was a Nebraska Republican politician. He was the son of former Nebraska state senator Howard Hammond Baldrige (1864-1928) and father of U.S. Secretary of Commerce Howard Malcolm Baldrige (1922-1987) .
He was born in Omaha, Nebraska on June 23, 1894 and graduated from Omaha High School. He attended Phillips Academy in Andover, Massachusetts and graduated from Yale University in 1918, where he was a member of Skull & Bones. In World War I he served as captain of Battery F, Three Hundred and Thirty-eighth Field Artillery for the United States. In 1921 he graduated from University of Nebraska, Lincoln College of Law and was admitted to the bar, setting up practice in Omaha.
He served in the Nebraska state house of representatives in 1923 and was a delegate to the delegate to the 1924 Republican National Convention and the 1928 Republican National Convention. He was elected to the Seventy-second United States Congress as a representative for the second district from March 4, 1931 to March 3, 1933. He was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1932. Afterwards he resumed the practice of law. During the Second World War entered the Army on June 10, 1942, as became a major in the United States Army Air Corps. He was discharged as a colonel on October 25, 1945, resuming law practice with offices in New York City, and Washington, D.C.. He was a resident of Washington, Connecticut until his death on January 19, 1985 in Southbury, Connecticut. He buried at Forest Lawn Cemetery in Omaha.
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