Clare Magee

Clare Magee

Clare Magee (born March 31, 1899 in Livonia , Putnam County , Missouri , †  August 7, 1969 in Unionville , Missouri) was an American politician . Between 1949 and 1953 he represented the state of Missouri in the US House of Representatives .

Career

Clare Magee attended Unionville High School and then until 1916 Kirksville State Teachers College . During the First World War he served in the US Navy , where he was a firearms instructor, among other things. After the war, he moved to Deaver , Wyoming , where he worked for the federal government's reclamation agency in 1920 and 1921. After a subsequent law degree at the University of Missouri at Columbia and his admission to the bar in 1922, he began to work in Unionville in this profession. From 1932 he also ran the farm on which he was born. Between 1935 and 1941 Magee was a postman in Unionville. During World War II , Magee served in the US Army until 1944 . There he was initially a simple soldier in the artillery . Since 1942 he was a captain in the air corps.

Politically, Magee was a member of the Democratic Party . In the 1948 congressional elections , he was elected to the US House of Representatives in Washington, DC in the first constituency of Missouri , where he succeeded Samuel W. Arnold on January 3, 1949 . After being re-elected, he was able to complete two legislative terms in Congress until January 3, 1953 . These were shaped by the events of the Cold War . In 1952, Clare Magee declined to run again for Congress. After leaving the US House of Representatives, he returned to practice as a lawyer. He died on August 7, 1969 in Unionville, where he was also buried.

Web links

• Clare Magee in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)

• Clare Magee in the database of Find a Grave (English)