Martin L. Clardy

Martin L. Clardy

Martin Linn Clardy (born April 26, 1844 in Farmington , Missouri , †  July 5, 1914 in St. Louis , Missouri) was an American politician . Between 1879 and 1889 he represented the state of Missouri in the US House of Representatives .

Career

Martin Clardy received an academic education. He studied at Saint Louis University , the University of Mississippi at Oxford and the University of Virginia at Charlottesville . During the Civil War , Clardy served in the Confederation Army , where he rose to major. After a subsequent law degree and his admission as a lawyer, he began to work in Farmington in this profession. Politically, he was a member of the Democratic Party . In 1884 he was a delegate to the Democratic National Convention in Chicago , on the Grover Cleveland was nominated as a presidential candidate.

In the congressional elections of 1878 he was elected to the US House of Representatives in Washington, DC in the first constituency of Missouri , where he succeeded Republican Anthony F. Ittner on March 4, 1879 . After four re-elections, he was able to complete five legislative terms in Congress by March 3, 1889 . From 1883 he represented the tenth district of his state there as the successor to Joseph Henry Burrows . Between 1885 and 1887, Clardy was chairman of the mining committee; from 1887 to 1889 he headed the trade committee. In 1888 it was not confirmed.

After leaving the US House of Representatives, Clardy practiced again as a lawyer in Farmington. In 1894 he moved to St. Louis, where he headed the legal departments of two railroad companies. Since 1909 he was also vice president of these companies. Martin Clardy died on July 5, 1914 in St. Louis, where he was also buried.

Web links

• Martin L. Clardy in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)

• Martin L. Clardy in the database of Find a Grave (English)