Clifford P. Case

Clifford P. Case

Clifford Philip Case (born April 16, 1904 in Franklin Park , New Jersey , †  March 5, 1982 in Washington, DC ) was an American politician ( Republican Party ) who represented the state of New Jersey in both chambers of Congress .

Clifford Case attended the public schools in Poughkeepsie ( New York ) and then first the Rutgers University in New Brunswick , where he 1925 Bachelor acquired Accounts. Three years later he passed his law exams at the Law School of Columbia University in New York City . He also began practicing as a lawyer there, after being admitted to the bar that same year.

In 1938 Case became a member of Rahway City Council , to which he was a member until 1942. That year he was elected to the New Jersey General Assembly , the lower house of the state legislature . There he held his mandate from 1943 to 1945, before moving to the House of Representatives of the United States for the first time after a successful election on January 3, 1945 , where he represented the 6th  constituency of New Jersey until August 16, 1953. He resigned as MP to become president of the Fund for the Republic , a liberal think tank .

Case was an opponent of US Senator Joseph McCarthy and consequently had to deal with conservative members of his own party when he ran for a seat in the Senate in 1954. During the campaign, a New Jersey newspaper published an interview with Bella Dodd , a former Communist Party executive . This stated that Case's sister Adelaide was an active member of several communist groups. It later emerged that the Adelaide Case was a professor who had died in 1948 and had no relationship with the politician.

In the Senate election, Case met the Democrat Charles R. Howell , who also sat for New Jersey in the House of Representatives. He defeated this by a very narrow margin. During his subsequent tenure, which lasted from January 3, 1955 to January 3, 1979, Case became one of the most liberal Republican senators in congressional history. He ran three successful re-elections and was one of the authors of the Case-Church Amendment in 1973 , which prevented the expansion of US military activities in Vietnam , Laos and Cambodia . In 1968 he received 22 votes as a presidential candidate at the Republican National Convention ; was nominated Richard Nixon .

In 1978 Case wanted to run for another term, but he was defeated by his conservative opponent Jeffrey Bell in the Republican Primary . This in turn lost the actual election against the Democrat Bill Bradley . Clifford Case resigned from the Senate on January 3, 1979; to this day he is the last Republican to win a Senate election in New Jersey. Although there was later a Republican senator, Nicholas F. Brady , he was only appointed. After his political career, Case worked for a law firm in New York and lectured at Rutgers University's Political Science Research Institute. He died in Washington in 1982 and was buried in Somerville .

Individual evidence

1. ^ Back in the Gutter " . TIME , October 25, 1954
2. ^ "McCarthyism's Effects In New Jersey" . New York Times , June 28, 1992

Web links

• Clifford P. Case in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)
• Clifford P. Case in the database of Find a Grave (English)