Samuel Nathaniel Friedel (April 18, 1898 – March 21, 1979), a

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, was a

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who represented the 7th congressional district of

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from January 3, 1953 to January 3, 1971. Born in

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, to

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immigrants, Friedel moved with his family to

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, when he was six months old and attended the public schools in Baltimore and Strayer Business College. He worked as a mailing clerk in a Baltimore store from 1919 to 1923. In 1926, Friedel founded the Industrial Loan Co., serving as president until 1956. Friedel served in the

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from 1935 to 1939 and served as a member of the city council of Baltimore from 1939 to 1952, representing the first and later the fifth district. He served as a delegate to the

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in 1964 and 1968. Friedel was elected as a Democrat to the Eighty-third and to the eight succeeding Congresses, serving from January 3, 1953 until January 3, 1971. While in congress, he served as chairman of the

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(Ninetieth and Ninety-first Congresses), the

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(Ninety-first Congress) and the

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(Ninety-first Congress). Friedel did not sign the 1956

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, and voted in favor of the Civil Rights Acts of 1957,

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, and

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, as well as the 24th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution and the

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. He was an unsuccessful candidate for renomination in 1970 to the Ninety-second Congress. Friedel died in

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and is buried in the Hebrew Friendship Cemetery in Baltimore.

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