Clinton Presba Anderson

Clinton Presba Anderson

Clinton Presba Anderson (* 23. October 1895 in Centerville , Turner County , South Dakota ; †  11. November 1975 in Albuquerque , New Mexico ) was an American politician of the Democratic Party , both deputy in the House of Representatives and US senator for New Mexico was also the United States Secretary of Agriculture .

Life

Studies and professional career

After attending public schools, he studied from 1913 to 1915 at Dakota Wesleyan University and then until 1916 at the University of Michigan . After moving to Albuquerque, he was a reporter and editor of a daily newspaper there between 1918 and 1922 . He then worked from 1922 to 1946 as an insurance broker for the New Mexico Loan and Mortgage Company . He was also president of Rotary International in 1930 .

He began his political career in 1933 as Treasurer of the state of New Mexico; he was a member of the state government of Republican Governor Andrew Hockenhull until 1934. He was then head of the New Mexico Relief Administration for a short time as administrator in 1935, before he was from 1935 to 1936 representative of the Federal Emergency Relief Administration (FERA) in New Mexico. Subsequently, from 1936 to 1938, he was initially chairman and administrative director of the Unemployment Compensation Commission in New Mexico and most recently between 1939 and 1940 executive director of the US Coronado Exposition Commission .

Congressman and Secretary of Agriculture

In 1940 he was elected as a Democratic Party candidate for a member of the US House of Representatives for New Mexico . There he represented after his re-elections in 1942 and 1944 from January 3, 1941 until his resignation on June 30, 1945 the interests of the first congressional electoral district of the state.

On June 30, 1945, Clinton Presba Anderson was appointed by US President Harry S. Truman as Secretary of Agriculture in his cabinet . He held this cabinet post until his resignation on May 10, 1948.

US Senator for New Mexico

In 1948, Anderson was first elected US Senator for New Mexico , replacing Carl Atwood Hatch , who had not run again. After his re-elections in 1954, 1960 and 1966 he was from January 3, 1949 to January 3, 1973 holder of the second Senate seat ( Class 2 ) of the state.

During his long tenure, he was from 1955 to 1956 and from 1959 to 1960 Chairman of the Joint Committee on Atomic Energy ( Joint Committee on Atomic Energy ) and 1955-1964 Chairman of the Joint Committee for the construction of the buildings of the Smithsonian Institution ( Joint Committee on Construction of Building for Smithsonian ) and 1955 to 1972 of the joint Committee on Navaho - Hopi - Pueblo Indians ( joint Committee on Navaho-Hopi Indian ). After further work from 1957 to 1960 as chairman of the Special Committee for the Preservation of Senate Records ( Special Committee on Preservation of Senate Records ) Clinton Presba Anderson from 1961 to 1964 was chairman of the Senate Committee on Interior and Island Affairs ( Senate Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs ) . In addition, he was chairman of the Special Committee on National Fuel Policy from 1961 to 1962 and, most recently, from 1963 to 1972 of the Senate Committee on Aeronautical and Space Sciences .

His memoirs appeared in 1970 under the title Outsider in the Senate, Senator Clinton Anderson's Memoirs . In 1972 he decided not to run again and retired from public life after leaving the US Senate on January 3, 1973.

literature

• Baker, Richard Allan: Conservation Politics: The Senate Career of Clinton P. Anderson , Albuquerque ( University of New Mexico Press), 1985.

Web links

Commons : Clinton Presba Anderson  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• Clinton Presba Anderson in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)
• Clinton Presba Anderson in the nndb (English)
• Clinton Presba Anderson Papers, 1848-1975 , University of New Mexico, Center for Southwest Research
• Clinton Presba Anderson Papers, 1945-1948 , Harry S. Truman Library (English)
• Clinton Presba Anderson in the Miller Center of Public Affairs of the University of Virginia (English)