Charles Clagett Marbury Explained

Charles Clagett Marbury
State Delegate:Maryland
Birth Date:1898
Birth Place:Beacon Hill Farm Upper Marlboro MD
Death Date:July 19, 1991
Death Place:Washington, D.C.
Spouse:Kathryn Worthington Lancaster

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.[1]

Marbury was elected to the Maryland House of Delegates in 1931 and served until he was elected to the state Senate in 1941.[2] 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.[2]

He was born in Upper Marlboro, Maryland and attended the Emerson Preparatory School in Washington, D.C.[3] and received a degree from the Johns Hopkins University in 1922.[2] 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.[2]

He studied law at the University of Maryland School of Law and eventually graduated from Georgetown University law school in 1925.[2]

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.[2]

He died on July 19, 1991.[3]

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Maryland Court of Appeals Judges, 1778– . Archives of Maryland. September 22, 2021.
  2. News: Charles Marbury, retired judge dies. 20 November 2011. The Baltimore Sun. July 21, 1991.
  3. News: Retired Md. Judge, Legislator Charles C. Marbury, 91, Dies. The Washington Post. 20 July 1991.