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History and Government—Congressional Biographies—MissouriMartin Linn CLARDY
(1844-1914)
CLARDY, Martin Linn, a
Representative from Missouri; born in Ste. Genevieve County, near
Farmington, Mo., April 26, 1844; attended the St. Louis University
and the University of Mississippi at Oxford; was graduated from the
University of Virginia at Charlottesville; served in the
Confederate Army until the close of the Civil War and retired with
the rank of major; studied law; was admitted to the bar and
commenced the practice of law in Farmington, St. Francois County,
Mo.; elected as a Democrat to the Forty-sixth and to the four
succeeding Congresses (March 4, 1879-March 3, 1889); chairman,
Committee on Mines and Mining (Forty-ninth Congress), Committee on
Commerce (Fiftieth Congress); was an unsuccessful candidate for
reelection in 1888 to the Fifty-first Congress; served as a
delegate to the Democratic National Convention in 1884; resumed the
practice of his profession in Farmington, Mo.; moved to St. Louis,
Mo., in 1894, having been appointed general attorney for the
Missouri Pacific and St. Louis & Iron Mountain Railway
companies, and was elected vice president and general solicitor in
1909 and served until his death in St. Louis, Mo., on July 5, 1914;
interment in Bellefontaine Cemetery.
Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1771-Present
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