John Daniel Clardy

John Daniel Clardy (1896)

John Daniel Clardy (born August 30, 1828 in Smith County , Tennessee , †  August 20, 1918 in Hopkinsville , Kentucky ) was an American politician . Between 1895 and 1899 he represented the state of Kentucky in the US House of Representatives .

Career

In 1831, John Clardy came with his parents to Christian County , Kentucky, where he attended public schools. In 1848 he graduated from Georgetown College ; after that he taught as a teacher for a year. After a subsequent medical degree at the University of Louisville in Lexington and the University of Pennsylvania and his license as a doctor in 1851, he began to work in this profession for a few years. Then he gave up this profession to devote himself to experimental agriculture and livestock.

Politically, Clardy was a member of the Democratic Party . In 1890 he was a delegate to a meeting to revise the Kentucky Constitution. In 1893 he was one of the representatives of his state at the World's Columbian Exposition , the world exhibition in Chicago . In the congressional election of 1894 he was elected to the US House of Representatives in Washington, DC in the second constituency of Kentucky , where he succeeded William Thomas Ellis on March 4, 1895 . After re-election, he was able to complete two legislative terms in Congress until March 3, 1899 . During this time the Spanish-American War fell .

In 1898, John Clardy declined to run again. He withdrew from politics in his retirement, which he spent on his estate "Oakland" near Hopkinsville. He died there on August 20, 1918, ten days before his 90th birthday.

Web links

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• John Daniel Clardy in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)

• John Daniel Clardy in the database of Find a Grave (English)