Charles Clagett Marbury was an American

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 politician.

Marbury was elected to the Maryland House of Delegates

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 in 1931 and served until he was elected to the state Senate in 1941. A short while later, he was appointed to serve as a Circuit Court judge, and later, the Court of Appeals.

He was born in Upper Marlboro, Maryland

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 and attended the Emerson Preparatory School

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 in Washington, D.C.

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and received a degree from the Johns Hopkins University

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 in 1922. Part of his studies were conducted at the University of Bordeaux

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 where he remained after serving in the field artillery of the 29th Division in World War I

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.

He studied law at the University of Maryland

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 law school and eventually graduated from Georgetown University law school

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 in 1925.

He was a member of Trinity Episcopal Church, the Society of the Cincinnati

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 and the Southern Maryland Society, which awarded him its Distinguished Member Award in 1989.

He died in on July 19, 1991.