Albert Alexander Blakeney (September 28, 1850 – October 15, 1924) was a U.S. Congressman

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 who represented the second Congressional district of Maryland

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 from 1901 to 1903 and from 1921 to 1923.

Blakeney was born in Riderwood, Maryland. He learned the business of cotton manufacturing and established the large cotton-duck mills located in Franklinville, Maryland

Franklinville, Maryland

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. Blakeney served as commissioner of Baltimore County, Maryland

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 from 1895 to 1899.

In 1900, Blakeney was elected as a Republican

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 to Congress

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, serving one full term from March 4, 1901 to March 3, 1903. He declined to be a candidate for renomination in 1902. He resumed his former business activities in Franklinville, but was again elected to Congress in 1920, serving another term from March 4, 1921 to March 3, 1923. He was an unsuccessful candidate for re-election in 1922, and died in Baltimore

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, Maryland two years later. He is interred in the Baltimore Cemetery.