Robert H. Clancy

Robert H. Clancy

Robert Henry Clancy (born March 14, 1882 in Detroit , Michigan , †  April 23, 1962 ) was an American politician . Between 1923 and 1933 he represented the state of Michigan twice in the US House of Representatives .

Career

Robert Clancy attended the public schools of his home country and then studied literature at the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor until 1907 . He then studied for a year Jura , but without ever having to work as a lawyer. Clancy worked as a newspaper reporter in Detroit for four years. Between 1911 and 1913 he served as secretary to Congressman Frank Ellsworth Doremus , and from 1913 to 1917 he performed the same role for Federal Secretary of Commerce Edwin F. Sweet . From 1917 until 1922 he worked as an appraiser for the Customs Service of Michigan. During the First World War he was manager of the War Trade Board of the city of Detroit, where he was also responsible for the recruitment of officers for the air corps. In addition, the procurement of materials for the medical corps in the state of Michigan was one of his tasks.

Politically, Clancy was then a member of the Democratic Party . In the 1922 congressional elections , he was elected as their candidate in the first constituency of Michigan in the US House of Representatives in Washington, DC , where he succeeded George P. Codd on March 4, 1923 . Since he was defeated by Republican John B. Sosnowski in 1924 , he could only serve one term in Congress until March 3, 1925 .

After leaving the US House of Representatives, Robert Clancy moved to the Republican Party. From 1926 he worked in the real estate industry. In this year's elections he made it back to Congress. There he replaced John Sosnowski again. After two re-elections, he was able to spend three more legislative terms in Congress until March 3, 1933. Since 1929, the work of the US House of Representatives was also shaped by the global economic crisis. Shortly before the end of his last term of office, the 20th amendment to the constitution was passed.

In the 1932 election, Clancy was defeated by the Democrat George G. Sadowski . This election result was in line with the federal trend in favor of the Democratic Party, which, along with Franklin D. Roosevelt, also won the presidential election. After his final departure from Congress, Clancy was an executive at a manufacturing company until 1948. He died in Detroit on April 23, 1962.

Web links

• Robert H. Clancy in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)

• Robert H. Clancy in the database of Find a Grave (English)