Cliff Clevenger

Cliff Clevenger (1955)

Cliff Clevenger (born August 20, 1885 in Long Pine , Nebraska , †  December 13, 1960 in Tiffin , Ohio ) was an American politician . Between 1939 and 1959 he represented the state of Ohio in the US House of Representatives .

Career

Cliff Clevenger was born on a ranch in Brown County , Nebraska. In 1895 he moved with his parents to Lacona , Iowa , where he attended public schools and high school. In the following years he worked from 1901 to 1903 in Marengo and then from 1904 to 1914 in Appleton ( Wisconsin ) on the market. Between 1915 and 1926 he served as President of the Clevenger Stores in Bowling Green, Ohio. From 1927 to 1938 he was manager of FW Uhlman Stores in Bryan . He was also involved in agriculture, especially in the field of livestock. Politically, he joined the Republican Party .

In the congressional elections of 1938, Clevenger was the fifth constituency elected from Ohio in the US House of Representatives, where he at the January 3, 1939 Democrats Frank C. Kniffin replaced. Reelected nine times, he was able to complete 20 years in the House of Representatives. By 1941 the last of the New Deal laws of the Franklin D. Roosevelt administration were passed there. In 1958 he gave up another candidacy. He died in Tiffin on December 13, 1960 and was buried in Neenah, Wisconsin.

Clevenger's time as a member of parliament was shaped by the great upheavals of the 20th century: World War II , Cold War , Korean War and the civil rights movement .

Web links

• Cliff Clevenger in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)

• Cliff Clevenger in the database of Find a Grave (English)