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History and Government—Congressional Biographies—WashingtonDILL, Clarence Cleveland
(1884—1978)
Senate Years of Service:
1923-1935
Party:
Democrat
DILL, Clarence Cleveland, a Representative and a Senator from Washington; born near Fredericktown, Knox County, Ohio, September 21, 1884; attended the public schools; engaged in teaching 1901-1903; graduated from Ohio Wesleyan University, Delaware, Ohio, 1907; newspaper reporter in Cleveland, Ohio, in 1907; taught in the high schools at Dubuque, Iowa, 1907-1908, and in Spokane, Wash., 1908-1910; studied law; admitted to the bar in 1910 and commenced practice in Spokane, Wash.; deputy prosecuting attorney of Spokane County 1911-1913; private secretary to the governor 1913; elected as a Democrat to the Sixty-fourth Congress; reelected to the Sixty-fifth Congress (March 4, 1915-March 3, 1919); unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1918; resumed the practice of law in Spokane, Wash.; elected as a Democrat to the United States Senate in 1922; reelected in 1928 and served from March 4, 1923, to January 3, 1935; was not a candidate for renomination in 1934; chairman, Committee on Interstate Commerce (Seventy-third Congress); engaged in the practice of law in Washington, D.C., and Spokane, Wash., 1935-1939; unsuccessful candidate for Governor in 1940; unsuccessful candidate for election in 1942 to the Seventy-eighth Congress; member of the Columbia Basin Commission of the State of Washington 1945-1948; special assistant to the United States Attorney General 1946-1953; resumed the practice of law in Spokane, Wash., where he died January 14, 1978; interment in Fairmont Memorial Park.
Bibliography
Dill, Clarence C. How Congress Makes Laws
. Washington, D.C.: Ransdell, 1936; Irish, Kerry E. Clarence C. Dill: The Life and Times of a Western Politician
. Pullman, Wash.: Washington State University Press, 2000.
Dill, Clarence Cleveland. How Congress Makes Laws
. Washington: Ransdell, 1936.
___. Radio Law, Practice and Procedure
. Washington: National Law Book Co., 1938.
___. Where Water Falls
. Spokane: n. p., 1970.
Irish, Kerry E. “Clarence Dill: The Life of a Western Politician.” Ph.D. dissertation, University of Washington, 1994.
Irish, Kerry E. Clarence C. Dill: The Life and Times of a Western Politician
. Pullman, Wash.: Washington State University Press, 2000.
Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1771-Present
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