Rash's Surname Index
Notes for Daniel Baugh BREWSTER
BREWSTER, Daniel Baugh, a Representative and a Senator from Maryland; born in Baltimore County, Md., November 23, 1923; educated at Gilman School, Baltimore, Md., St. Paul's School, Concord, N.H., Princeton University, and Johns Hopkins University; during the Second World War enlisted as a private in the United States Marine Corps in 1942; commissioned as a second lieutenant in 1943 and served until 1946; graduated from the University of Maryland Law School in 1949; admitted to the bar in 1949 and commenced practice in Towson, Md.; member, Maryland house of delegates 1950-1958; elected as a Democrat to the Eighty-sixth and Eighty-seventh Congresses (January 3, 1959-January 3, 1963); was not a candidate for renomination in 1962; elected as a Democrat to the United States Senate in 1962 and served from January 3, 1963, to January 3, 1969; unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1968; after indictment in 1969, trial, conviction, and reversal, pleaded no contest in 1975 to a felony charge of accepting an illegal gratuity while a United States Senator; farmer; was a resident of Glyndon, Md., until his death due to liver cancer on August 19, 2007.
In 1954, Sen. Brewster married Carol Leiper de Havenon, a magazine cover girl and pioneer woman steeplechase rider. They owned and operated Worthington Farms in Glyndon, a 500-acre horse and cattle farm that was home of the Maryland Hunt Cup.
In 1958, he was elected representative for Maryland's 2nd Congressional District. He served two terms.
After winning election to the U.S. Senate in 1962 at age 39, he remained active in the Marine Corps reserve through the Vietnam War and as part of the Senate's armed services committee. He later retired as a full colonel after three decades of service.
The senator advised President Johnson that he had concerns about the war but continued to support it, which his son described "as the worst political mistake that he made."
In 1967, Sen. Brewster attended the funeral of U.S. Ambassador to France William Bullitt. There, Sen. Brewster became reacquainted with Bullitt's daughter - and Brewster's first fiancée - Anne Bullitt, who had jilted the senator while he was overseas at war.
He divorced his first wife and wed Bullitt, a marriage that also ended in divorce.
His complicated personal life, his support of the war and his increasingly serious problems with alcohol took their toll, and Sen. Brewster lost his 1968 re-election bid to close personal friend Charles McCurdy "Mac" Mathias Jr., a law school classmate.
A year out of office, Sen. Brewster was indicted by the federal government in 1969 for accepting a campaign contribution from the Spiegel catalog company in exchange for voting for low postal rates. The trial and subsequent appeals carried on for six years. Ultimately, he pleaded no contest to accepting an unlawful gratuity, without corrupt intent, according to his son. Sen. Brewster was fined $10,000 and retained his license to practice law.
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