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History and Government—Congressional Biographies—MissouriCLAY, William Lacy, Sr.
(1931—)
CLAY, William Lacy, Sr., (father of William Lacy Clay, Jr.), a Representative from Missouri; born in St. Louis, Mo., April 30, 1931; B.S., St. Louis University, 1953; real estate broker; manager, life insurance company, 1959-1961; alderman, St. Louis, Mo., 1959-1964; business representative, city employees union, 1961-1964; education coordinator, Steamfitters Local No. 562, 1966-1967; elected as a Democrat to the Ninety-first and to the fifteen succeeding Congresses (January 3, 1969-January 3, 2001); chairman, Committee on the Post Office and Civil Service (One Hundred Second and One Hundred Third Congresses); was not a candidate for reelection to the One Hundred Seventh Congress.
Clay, William L. Bill Clay: A Political Voice at the Grass Roots
. St. Louis: Missouri Historical Society Press: Distributed by University of Missouri Press, 2004.
———. Just Permanent Interests: Black Americans in Congress, 1870-1991.
With a foreword by Governor L. Douglas Wilder. New York: Amistad Press, Inc., 1992.
———. Racism in the White House: A Common Practice of Most United States Presidents
. Washington, D.C.: Howard University Press, 2003.
———. To Kill Or Not to Kill: Thoughts on Capital Punishment.
Edited by Michael and Mary Burgess. San Bernardino, Calif.: The Borgo Press, 1990.
”William Lacy Clay” in Black Americans in Congress, 1870-1989
. Prepared under the direction of the Commission on the Bicentenary by the Office of the Historian, U.S. House of Representatives. Washington: Government Printing Office, 1991.
Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1771-Present
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