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History and Government—Congressional Biographies—North CarolinaClyde Roark HOEY
(1877-1954)
Senate Years of Service:
1945-1954Party: DemocratHOEY, Clyde Roark, a
Representative and a Senator from North Carolina; born in Shelby,
Cleveland County, N.C., on December 11, 1877; attended the public
schools; learned the printing trade and later became, at the age of
sixteen, owner, editor and publisher of the Cleveland Star;
graduated from the law department of the University of North
Carolina at Chapel Hill; admitted to the bar in 1899 and commenced
the practice of law in Shelby, N.C.; member, State house of commons
1898-1902; member, State senate 1902-1904; assistant United States
attorney for the western district of North Carolina 1913-1919;
elected on December 16, 1919, as a Democrat to the Sixty-sixth
Congress to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of Edwin Y.
Webb and served from December 16, 1919, to March 3, 1921; was not a
candidate for renomination in 1920; resumed the practice of law;
Governor of North Carolina 1937-1941; elected as a Democrat to the
United States Senate in 1944; reelected in 1950 and served from
January 3, 1945, until his death in his Senate office in
Washington, D.C., May 12, 1954; interment in Sunset Cemetery,
Shelby, N.C.
Bibliography
Dictionary of American Biography; Hatcher, Susan A.
“The Senatorial Career of Clyde R. Hoey.” Ph.D.
dissertation, Duke University, 1983; U.S. Congress. Memorial
Addresses. 83rd Cong., 2nd sess., 1954. Washington, D.C.:
Government Printing Office, 1954.
Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1771-Present
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