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History and Government—Congressional Biographies—MissouriClare MAGEE
(1899-1969)
MAGEE, Clare, a
Representative from Missouri; born on a farm in Putnam County near
Livonia, Mo., March 31, 1899; graduate of Unionville (Mo.) High
School; student in Kirksville State Teachers College in 1916;
during the First World War served in the United States Navy as a
seaman first-class and small-arms instructor; homesteaded in Big
Horn Basin, Wyo., and worked as a laborer for the United States
Reclamation Service at Deaver, Wyo., in 1920 and 1921; was
graduated from the University of Missouri at Columbia in 1922; was
admitted to the bar in 1922 and commenced the practice of law in
Unionville, Putnam County, Mo.; has owned and operated farm where
he was born since 1932; postmaster of Unionville, Mo., 1935-1941;
served as a private in the Field Artillery, United States Army, in
1942 and as a captain in the Army Air Corps 1942-1944; elected as a
Democrat to the Eighty-first and Eighty-second Congresses (January
3, 1949-January 3, 1953); was not a candidate for renomination in
1952; resumed the practice of law; died in Unionville, Mo., August
7, 1969; interment in Unionville Cemetery.
Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1771-Present
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