Kit Clardy

Kit Francis Clardy (born June 17, 1892 in Butler , Bates County , Missouri , †  September 5, 1961 in Palos Verdes Estates , California ) was an American politician . Between 1953 and 1955 he represented the state of Michigan in the US House of Representatives .

Career

Kit Clardy moved with his parents to Kansas City in his youth and then in 1907 to Liberty , also in the state of Missouri. In these places he attended public schools. After a subsequent law degree at the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor and his admission to the bar in 1925, he began to work in Ionia in his new profession.

Politically, Clardy was a member of the Republican Party . Between 1927 and 1931, he served as the Assistant Attorney General of Michigan. From 1931 to 1934 he headed the state's Public Utilities Commission . Then he worked again as a private lawyer. In the congressional elections of 1952 he was in the sixth constituency of Michigan in the US House of Representatives in Washington, DC chosen, where he succeeds on Jan. 3, 1953 William W. Blackney took it against two years earlier in the Primary lost would have. Since he was defeated by the Democrat Donald Hayworth in 1956 , he was only able to serve one term in Congress until January 3, 1955 . He sympathized with the conservative US Senator Joseph McCarthy and took part in meetings of the Committee on Un-American Activities .

After leaving the US House of Representatives, Kit Clardy moved to Palos Verdes Estates near Glendale , California. He died there on September 5, 1961.

Web links

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

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