Clarence E. Kilburn

Clarence E. Kilburn (1959)

Clarence Evans Kilburn (born April 13, 1893 in Malone , Franklin County , New York , †  May 20, 1975 ibid) was an American politician . Between 1940 and 1965 he represented New York State in the US House of Representatives .

Career

Clarence Kilburn attended public schools in his home country. In 1916 he graduated from Cornell University in Ithaca . During the First World War , he served in an infantry unit in the United States Army in 1917 and 1918 . Then he worked in the banking industry. In 1930 he became President of the People's Trust Co. of Malone . Politically, he joined the Republican Party .

After the death of Wallace E. Pierce , Kilburn was elected as his successor to the House of Representatives in Washington, DC in the by-election for the 31st seat of New York , where he took up his new mandate on February 13, 1940. After twelve re-elections, he could remain in Congress until January 3, 1965 . He repeatedly changed his constituency . The Roosevelt government's last New Deal laws were passed there by 1941 . Since 1941, the work of the Congress was also shaped by the events of the Second World War and its consequences. Kilburn's time in Congress also saw the start of the Cold War , the Korean War and, domestically, the civil rights movement . In addition, the Vietnam War began at that time . Kilburn was the most conservative Republican Congressman from New York State. On the question of foreign aid, however, he was a little more liberal. In 1964 he voted against the civil rights law .

In the same year Kilburn waived another congressional candidacy. After his tenure in the US House of Representatives, he was a director of the Marine Midland Trust Co. of Northern New York . He died on May 20, 1975 in his native Malone.

Web links

• Clarence E. Kilburn in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)

predecessor	Office	successor
Wallace E. Pierce	United States House of Representatives for New York (31st constituency) February 13, 1940 - January 3, 1945	Bernard W. Kearney
Edwin Arthur Hall	United States House Representative for New York (34th constituency) January 3, 1945 - January 3, 1953	William R. Williams
Dean P. Taylor	United States House of Representatives for New York (33rd constituency) January 3, 1953 - January 3, 1963	Howard W. Robison
Carleton J. King	United States House of Representatives for New York (31st constituency) January 3, 1963 - January 3, 1965	Robert C. McEwen