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History and Government—Congressional Biographies—MissouriClyde WILLIAMS
(1873-1954)
WILLIAMS, Clyde, a
Representative from Missouri; born on a farm near Grubville,
Jefferson County, Mo., October 13, 1873; attended the county
schools, De Soto High School, and the State normal school at Cape
Girardeau; was graduated from the law department of the University
of Missouri at Columbia in 1901; was admitted to the bar the same
year and commenced practice in De Soto, Mo.; prosecuting attorney
of Jefferson County 1902-1908; elected as a Democrat to the
Seventieth Congress (March 4, 1927-March 3, 1929); unsuccessful
candidate for reelection in 1928 to the Seventy-first Congress;
resumed the practice of law; elected to the Seventy-second and to
the five succeeding Congresses (March 4, 1931-January 3, 1943);
unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1942 to the Seventy-eighth
Congress; engaged in legal work for the Reconstruction Finance
Corporation in Washington, D.C., 1943-1945; served as president of
the Jefferson Trust Co. in Hillsboro and president of the Bank of
Hillsboro; died in St. Louis, Mo., November 12, 1954; interment in
Hillsboro Cemetery, Hillsboro, Mo.
Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1771-Present
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