Clarence Dill

Clarence Dill

Clarence Cleveland Dill (born September 21, 1884 in Knox County , Ohio , † January 14, 1978 in Spokane , Washington ) was an American politician of the Democratic Party . He represented Washington State in both houses of the US Congress .

Life

Clarence Dill, who was born near Fredericktown in Ohio, initially worked as a teacher himself after attending school. After graduating from Ohio Wesleyan University in Delaware , he also worked as a newspaper journalist before moving to Spokane in 1908, where he again took on a teaching job. He then studied law , was admitted to the bar in 1910 and began practicing as a lawyer. Between 1911 and 1913, Dill was the assistant district attorney in Spokane County ; in 1913 he also served as the private secretary to Washington Governor Ernest Lister .

politics

His political career began in 1914 when he was elected to the US House of Representatives . After two terms, he was defeated by Republican J. Stanley Webster when he was re-elected in 1918 and left Congress. For this he managed to win a seat in the US Senate in 1922 . Here, too, he completed two terms and left voluntarily in 1935.

In 1940 Dill ran for governor of Washington, but lost to Republican Arthur B. Langlie . Two years later, he made his last attempt to be elected to public office, but missed returning to the House of Representatives against Republican Walt Horan . Subsequently, he was a member of the Columbia Basin Commission from 1945 to 1948 and a special advisor to the US Attorney General from 1946 to 1953 between 1946 and 1953.

Then Dill worked again as a lawyer in Spokane before he died in 1978. He was the last surviving US senator from before the Great Depression .

Web links

• Clarence Dill in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)

• Clarence Dill in the database of Find a Grave (English)