Robert H. Kittleman (January 31, 1926 – September 11, 2004) was a state senator in Maryland's District 9, which covers parts of Carroll County and Howard County for the two years prior to his death. Prior to that he was a Maryland state delegate for nearly 19 years in District 14B, which covered parts of Howard and Montgomery County. In the House he served as minority leader for a number of years. He was the father of Maryland former state senator and former Howard County executive Allan H. Kittleman.
Kittleman served in the United States Navy from 1943-46 stationed at Guam. He then worked for Westinghouse Electric Company for 26 years until 1984. He also was a farmer during this time.[2]
Bob was an active participant in the civil rights movement, pursuing desegregation of Howard County Schools which lasted more than a decade past the 1954 Brown v. Board of Education ruling.[3] As chair of the NAACP Education Committee, he argued their case to the Board of Education (see BOE minutes, page 154) [4] and later became the only white president of the Howard County branch of the NAACP.[5]
He was a chair of the Howard County Republican Central Committee, and was also a member of the Veterans of Foreign Wars (VFW). In 1978 Kittleman ran for the Howard County Council, In 1982, he made his first run for Maryland House of Delegates.[6]
Kittleman received many awards including First Life Achievement Award in 1986 and the John W. Holland Humanitarian Award in 2004.
^"ABOUT US". HoCoNAACP. Retrieved August 28, 2022.
^Jeanne Garland (May 12, 1982). "Kittleman marches to his Own drum in bid for House of Delegates seat". The Baltimore Sun.
^"State Senate Results". Maryland State Board of Elections. December 2, 2002. Retrieved October 4, 2007.
External links
"Bob Kittleman". Robert Kittleman - The Man and His Legacy. December 8, 2013. Archived from the original on September 15, 2014. Retrieved December 1, 2020.
