Harry Streett Baldwin

Harry Streett Baldwin (August 21, 1894 – October 19, 1952) was a U.S. Congressman who represented the second congressional district of Maryland from 1943 to 1947.

Early life Harry Streett Baldwin was born on August 21, 1894, at the family farm in Baldwin, Baltimore County, Maryland. His father was a farmer and a canner. He led a reform drive to modernize the police department, fire, sewage, garbage disposal, and purchasing operations in the county. Opposition in the board to his reform plan led him to run for president of the board in 1938. His campaign was successful and he served as president from 1938 to 1942.

Baldwin was elected as a Democrat to the Seventy-eighth and 79th United States Congress, serving from January 3, 1943, to January 3, 1947. He died shortly after on October 19, 1952, at Union Memorial Hospital in Baltimore. He is interred in Chestnut Grove Cemetery of Jacksonville, Maryland.