Hiester Clymer

Hiester Clymer

Hiester Clymer (born November 3, 1827 in Morgantown , Berks County , Pennsylvania , †  June 12, 1884 in Reading , Pennsylvania) was an American politician . Between 1873 and 1881 he represented the state of Pennsylvania in the US House of Representatives .

Career

Hiester Clymer came from the Pennsylvania politically important Hiester family. Many of his relatives held political offices at the state and federal levels. He attended Reading public schools and graduated from Princeton College in 1847 . After a subsequent law degree and his admission to the bar in 1849, he began to work in Reading and Berks County in this profession. Between 1851 and 1856 he practiced this activity in Pottsville ; after that he returned to Reading. At the same time he embarked on a political career as a member of the Democratic Party . In January 1860, he represented Berks County on the Pennsylvania State Tax Committee. In the same year he took part as a delegate at both Democratic National Conventions , which took place in Charleston and Baltimore . Clymer served in the Pennsylvania Senate between 1860 and 1866 . In 1866 he ran unsuccessfully for governor of Pennsylvania. Two years later he was again a delegate to the Democratic National Convention and in 1870 he was a member of the welfare committee of his state.

In the congressional elections of 1872 Clymer was elected to the US House of Representatives in Washington, DC in the eighth constituency of Pennsylvania , where he succeeded James Lawrence Getz on March 4, 1873 . After three re-elections, he was able to complete four legislative terms in Congress by March 3, 1881 . During this time he headed the War Department's Expenditures Control Committee and the Grant Committee (both between 1875 and 1877) and the State Department's Expenditure Control Committee (1879–1881). In 1876 he investigated the behavior of Secretary of War William W. Belknap , who then had to resign because of corruption. In 1880, Hiester Clymer renounced another candidacy.

After his tenure in the US House of Representatives ended, Clymer became vice president of the Union Trust Company in Philadelphia and president of the Clymer Iron Company . He died in Reading on June 12, 1884.

Web links

• Hiester Clymer in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)

• Hiester Clymer in the database of Find a Grave (English)

predecessor	Office	successor
James Lawrence Getz	United States House Representative for Pennsylvania (8th constituency) March 4, 1873 - March 3, 1881	Daniel Ermentrout