{{Short description|American politician (1893–1968)}} {{Infobox officeholder | name = Emory Ryan Cole | image = | caption = | birth_date = September 3, 1893 | birth_place = Cockeysville, Maryland, U.S. | death_date = August 16, 1968 | death_place = Baltimore, Maryland, U.S. | party = Republican | office = Member of the Maryland House of Delegates | term_start = 1955 | term_end = 1959 | office1 = | office2 = | alma_mater = Howard University }} '''Emory Ryan Cole''' (September 3, 1893 – August 16, 1968) was a lawyer and state legislator in Maryland. He served in the Maryland House of Delegates.<ref name="msa">{{Cite web|url=https://msa.maryland.gov/megafile/msa/speccol/sc3500/sc3520/014300/014301/html/14301bio.html|title=Emory Cole, MSA SC 3520-14301|website=msa.maryland.gov}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://msa.maryland.gov/megafile/msa/speccol/sc3500/sc3520/014300/014301/html/14301sources.html|title=Emory Cole, MSA SC 3520-14301|website=msa.maryland.gov}}</ref>
He served in the U.S. military. He graduated from Howard University.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=xw_tAAAAMAAJ&q=emory+ryan+cole|title=Directory of Graduates: Howard University, 1870-1963|first=Howard|last=University|date=February 10, 1965|publisher=the University|via=Google Books}}</ref> He was a Republican.<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=UVkLtW71P7cC&q=emory+r.+cole|title=An Historical List of Public Officials of Maryland|first=Edward C.|last=Papenfuse|date=February 10, 1990|publisher=Maryland State Archives|isbn=9780942370263|via=Google Books}}</ref> He lost his 1958 re-election campaign to Verda F. Welcome.<ref name=msa/>
He has sometimes been noted as '''Emery Ryan Cole'''. He and Truly Hatchett were the first African Americans to serve in the body.<ref>{{cite web |last1=Osterdahl |first1=Andy |title=The Strangest Names In American Political History : Truly Hatchett (1881-1970) |url=https://politicalstrangenames.blogspot.com/2015/02/truly-hatchett-1881-1970.html |website=The Strangest Names In American Political History |access-date=9 May 2023 |date=1 February 2015}}</ref>
He was a veteran of World War II. He lost re-election to Verda Welcome who succeeded him in office.<ref name="msa"/>
==Personal life==
He was a Freemason and an Elk. Cole was a member of the Veterans of Foreign Wars and the American Legion.<ref name="msa"/>
==See also== *List of African-American officeholders (1900–1959)
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