William P. Bolton

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William P. Bolton (July 2, 1885–November 22, 1964) was a U.S. Congressman who represented the second district of Maryland from 1949 to 1951.

Born near Whiteford, Maryland, Bolton attended the public schools and St. Francis Parochial School in Baltimore County, Maryland. He graduated from the University of Baltimore Law School in 1909, and became a lawyer in private practice. He served as trial magistrate in Towson, Maryland from 1941-1946.

Bolton served in the Maryland State Senate from 1946 to 1948, and was elected as a Democrat to the Eighty-first Congress, serving from January 3, 1949 to January 3, 1951. He was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection to the Eighty-second Congress in 1950. After Congress, Bolton served as director of Baltimore County Civil Defense in 1951, and died in Baltimore in 1964. He is interred in Mount Maria Cemetery of Towson.

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• William P. Bolton at the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress

Preceded by Hugh A. Meade

U.S. Congressman from the 2nd district of Maryland 1949–1951

Succeeded by James Devereux