[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 153 (2007), Part 17]
[Extensions of Remarks]
[Page 23988]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




              HONORING THE MEMORY OF DANIEL BAUGH BREWSTER

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                     HON. C.A. DUTCH RUPPERSBERGER

                              of maryland

                    in the house of representatives

                       Friday, September 7, 2007

  Mr. RUPPERSBERGER. Madam Speaker, I rise before you today to honor 
the memory of Daniel Baugh Brewster, a former U.S. Representative and 
U.S. Senator from Maryland.
  Daniel Brewster was born in Baltimore County, Maryland on November 
23, 1923. He attended Gilman School in Baltimore, Maryland and St. Paul 
School in Concord, New Hampshire.
  Mr. Brewster attended Princeton University before enlisting in the 
Marine Corps in 1942. At the age of 19, he commanded troops in the 
South Pacific as a lieutenant with the 4th Marine Regiment of the 6th 
Marine Division. Mr. Brewster led assault waves on Guam in 1944 and on 
Sugar Loaf Mountain in Okinawa in 1945. He was wounded seven times 
during the assaults, and was awarded a Purple Heart, 2 Gold Stars and 2 
Bronze Stars.
  He attended school both day and night at the Johns Hopkins University 
to earn enough credits to enroll in the University of Maryland School 
of Law. He graduated in 1949 by supplementing his course work with 
night classes at George Washington University's Law School. Shortly 
thereafter, he then formed a law practice with John Grason Turnbull, 
then majority leader of the Maryland Senate. He was elected to a 
countywide Maryland House of Delegates seat representing Baltimore 
County, Maryland in 1950, at age 26, and served 2 terms.
  In 1958, Mr. Brewster was elected to Congress from Maryland's 2nd 
District, which then encompassed Harford, Carroll and Baltimore 
Counties. He served two terms in the House of Representatives.
  Mr. Brewster was elected to the U.S. Senate in 1962 at age 39. He was 
the sole sponsor of legislation that created the Assateague Island 
National Seashore in Maryland and Virginia in 1963. In 1964, he was the 
stand-in candidate for President Lyndon B. Johnson when Alabama 
Governor George C. Wallace, a segregationist, ran in Maryland's 
Democratic presidential primary, a test battle amid the debate over the 
Civil Rights Act of 1964.
  Madam Speaker, I ask that you join with me today to honor the memory 
of Daniel Baugh Brewster. He was a true American patriot who throughout 
his life went above and beyond the call of duty in his service to 
Maryland and the United States of America.

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