district succeeded predecessor successor death_date birth_place death_place religion jr/sr party term_end preceded birth_date term_start image article_title state name
4th henry stockbridge , jr. . john k. cowen louis e. mccomas william p. jackson 25 november 1912 baltimore , maryland washington , d.c. judaism united states senator democratic november 3 , 1895 25 , 1912 march 3 , 1889 march john van lear findlay henry stockbridge , jr. . 11 april 1850 march 4 , 1891 4 , 1905 march 4 , 1887 march isidor rayner standing photograph portrait.jpg isidor rayner
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isidor rayner

isidor rayner -lrb- april 11 , 1850november 25 , 1912 -rrb- was a democratic member of the united states senate , representing the state of maryland from 1905 to 1912 .
he also represented the fourth congressional district of maryland from 1887 to 1889 , and 1891 to 1895 .
rayner was born into a german-jewish family -lsb- http://www.jewishmuseummd.org/html/cr_timeline3.html] in baltimore , maryland , and attended local private schools .
he later attended the university of maryland , baltimore , and the university of virginia .
he began to study law and was admitted to the maryland bar in 1871 .
rayner was elected to the maryland house of delegates and served from 1878 to 1884 .
in 1885 , he was elected to the maryland state senate , serving one year until 1886 .
rayner was elected the same year to the 50th united states congress .
he was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1888 to the 51st congress , but was victorious in the next two elections to the 52nd and 53rd congresses .
he declined to be a candidate for renomination in 1894 .
several years later in 1899 , rayner was chosen to be the attorney general of maryland , serving until 1903 .
he was elected as a democrat in 1905 to the u.s. senate , and was reelected again in 1911 .
while senator , he served as chairman of the committee on indian depredations -lrb- sixty-second congress -rrb- .
in 1912 , rayner died in washington , d.c. , while serving as senator .
he is buried at rock creek cemetery .
