Clyde T. Ellis

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Clyde Taylor Ellis (born December 21, 1908 in Garfield , Benton County , Arkansas , † February 9, 1980 in Washington, DC ) was an American politician . Between 1939 and 1943 he represented the third constituency of the state of Arkansas in the US House of Representatives .

Career

Clyde Ellis attended public schools in Fayetteville and then studied law at the University of Arkansas, among other things. He then continued his law studies at George Washington University and the American University in Washington. In the meantime he worked from 1927 to 1928 as a teacher in Garfield and was from 1929 to 1934 school overseer of that town. After his admission to the bar in 1933, he began his new profession in Bentonville .

Ellis was a member of the Democratic Party . From 1933 to 1935 he was a member of the Arkansas House of Representatives ; between 1935 and 1939 he was a member of the State Senate . In 1940 he was a delegate to the Democratic National Convention , where President Franklin D. Roosevelt was nominated for the third time as a presidential candidate. In 1938 Ellis was elected to the US House of Representatives, where he succeeded Claude A. Fuller on January 3, 1939 . After re-election in 1940, he was able to complete two terms in Congress until January 3, 1943 . In 1942 he decided not to run again. Instead, he unsuccessfully applied for his party's nomination as a US Senator .

During the final stages of World War II , he was an officer in the US Navy from 1943 to 1945 . Until 1967 he was also the executive director of the National Rural Electric Cooperative Association , the association of power producers in rural areas. Between 1968 and 1969, Ellis was a special advisor to the Department of Agriculture . From 1971 to 1977 he was a member of the advisory board of US Senator John Little McClellan . He then worked again for the Ministry of Agriculture until 1979. He retired in August 1979. Clyde Ellis last lived in Chevy Chase , Maryland . He died in Washington on February 9, 1980 and was buried in Arlington National Cemetery.

Web links

  • Clyde T. Ellis in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)
personal data
SURNAME Ellis, Clyde T.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Ellis, Clyde Taylor (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American politician
DATE OF BIRTH December 21, 1908
PLACE OF BIRTH near Arkansas , Arkansas
DATE OF DEATH February 9, 1980
Place of death Washington, DC