Clarence J. McLeod

Clarence J. McLeod

Clarence John McLeod (born July 3, 1895 in Detroit , Michigan , †  May 15, 1959 ) was an American politician . Between 1920 and 1941 he represented the state of Michigan three times in the US House of Representatives .

Career

Clarence McLeod attended public schools in his home country. After studying law at the Detroit College of Law and being admitted to the bar in 1919, he began to work in his new profession in Detroit. During the First World War he was first in a flying school and later a soldier in a news unit. After the war he was a member of the US Army Reserve , where he rose to lieutenant colonel. Politically, McLeod was a member of the Republican Party . After the death of MP Charles Archibald Nichols , he was elected to the US House of Representatives in Washington, DC in the by-election for the 13th seat of Michigan , where he took up his new mandate on November 2, 1920. Since he did not run in the regular elections of 1920 , he could only end the current legislative period there until March 3, 1921.

In the elections of 1922 McLeod was re-elected to the US House of Representatives in the 13th District, where he replaced Vincent M. Brennan on March 4, 1923 , who had been his successor two years earlier. After six re-elections, he was able to complete seven legislative terms in Congress by January 3, 1937 . In this time fell global economic crisis in the early 1930s. The first New Deal laws of the federal government under President Franklin D. Roosevelt were passed in Congress since 1933, but McLeod's party was rather hostile to them. In 1933 the 20th and 21st amendments to the Constitution were also passed. In 1934 McLeod sought unsuccessfully to nominate his party for the upcoming gubernatorial election . Three years later, he felt the same way with an attempted candidacy for the mayoral election in Detroit.

In 1936, Clarence McLeod was defeated by the Democrat George D. O'Brien . In the congressional elections of 1938 McLeod was able to prevail one last time and on January 3, 1939, his old mandate in Congress was taken over by O'Brien again. Until January 3, 1941, he was able to complete another term in Congress, during which the last New Deal laws were passed. In 1940 he was again defeated by the Democrat O'Brien. In 1942, 1944, 1946, 1950 and 1952 McLeod applied unsuccessfully to return to Congress. He failed either in the elections or in the primary . Professionally, he practiced as a lawyer again during this time. He was also a temporary advisor to the Federal Civil Defense Administration , Clarence McLeod died on May 15, 1959 in Detroit, where he was buried in Mount Olivet Cemetery .

Web links

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• Clarence J. McLeod in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)

• Clarence J. McLeod in the database of Find a Grave (English)