Charles R. Clason

Charles R. Clason during a practice session in the Congress gymnasium

Charles Russell Clason (born September 3, 1890 in Gardiner , Maine , †  July 7, 1985 in Springfield , Massachusetts ) was an American politician . Between 1937 and 1949 he represented the state of Massachusetts in the US House of Representatives .

Career

Charles Clason attended public schools in his home country as well as Bates College in Lewiston . After studying law at Georgetown University in Washington, DC and being admitted to the bar in 1917, he began working in this profession in Boston . In the meantime he studied at the University of Oxford in England . In 1913 and 1914 he worked for the Interstate Commerce Commission and the Department of Home Education . After the outbreak of the First World War in Europe in 1914, Clason was a member of a commission to aid German-occupied Belgium until 1915 . After the American entry into the war, he was a staff sergeant in the Coast Guard. In addition to his other activities, Clason taught law at Northeastern University in Springfield between 1920 and 1937 . From 1922 to 1930 he was a prosecutor in the western part of the state of Massachusetts. Until 1926 he acted there as a deputy and then as the actual district attorney. At the same time he embarked on a political career as a member of the Republican Party .

In the 1936 congressional elections , Clason was elected to the US House of Representatives in Washington in the second constituency of Massachusetts, where he succeeded William J. Granfield on January 3, 1937 . After five re-elections, he was able to complete six legislative terms in Congress by January 3, 1949 . Further New Deal laws were passed there by the federal government under President Franklin D. Roosevelt by 1941 . Since 1941, the work of the Congress was also shaped by the events of the Second World War and its consequences.

In 1948, Clason was not re-elected. After his time in the US House of Representatives, he practiced as a lawyer again. In 1952, 1956 and 1960 he was a delegate to the respective Republican National Conventions , at which Dwight D. Eisenhower and later Richard Nixon were nominated as presidential candidates. From 1952 to 1970 he was Dean of the School of Law at Western New England College . Charles Clason died in Springfield on July 7, 1985.

Web links

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• Charles R. Clason in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)

• Charles R. Clason in the database of Find a Grave (English)