In 1934, Cordish was elected to the Maryland House of Delegates to represent the 4th legislative district in Baltimore City.
[7] He voted against the formidable lobby representing bar and saloon owners, and sought to strike out a requirement that witnesses and jurors profess belief in God.
In this position, he was able to collect $3 million from the West German government for Nazi victims of the Holocaust in Baltimore.
[1] His son Joel was beaten and paralyzed in an attack when he was a Ph.D. student at the University of Michigan.
[8] His sons, Joel and Michael, became Orthodox Jews and moved to Israel.