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History and Government—Congressional Biographies—WashingtonClarence Cleveland DILL
(1884-1978)
Senate Years of Service:
1923-1935Party: DemocratDILL, 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.
Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1771-Present
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