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History and Government—Congressional Biographies—TennesseeClarence Wyly TURNER
(1866-1939)
TURNER, Clarence Wyly, a
Representative from Tennessee; born on a farm near Clydeton,
Humphreys County, Tenn., October 22, 1866; attended the public
schools, a preparatory school in Edgewood, Dickson County, Tenn.,
and National Normal Institute, Lebanon, Ohio; was graduated from
the law department of Northern Indiana Normal College at Valparaiso
in 1904; was admitted to the bar the same year and commenced
practice at Waverly, Humphreys County, Tenn.; editor of the Waverly
Sentinel; chairman of the Democratic committee of Humphreys County
for fifteen years; member of the State senate 1900, 1901, and
1909-1912; delegate to the Democratic National Convention in 1920;
elected mayor of Waverly, Tenn., in 1920; city attorney; elected as
a Democrat to the Sixty-seventh Congress to fill the vacancy caused
by the death of Lemuel P. Padgett and served from November 7, 1922,
to March 3, 1923; was not a candidate for reelection in 1922 to the
Sixty-eighth Congress; returned to Waverly, Tenn., and engaged in
banking and agricultural pursuits; served as county judge of
Humphreys County 1924-1933; elected to the Seventy-third and to the
three succeeding Congresses and served from March 4, 1933, until
his death in Washington, D.C., March 23, 1939; interment in Marable
Cemetery, Waverly, Tenn.
Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1771-Present
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