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| Affiliation | Democratic |
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| Name | Clyde R. Hoey |
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Shelby, North Carolina , United States |
| Email | None |
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December 11, 1877
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| Died | May 12, 1954
(76 years)
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| Contributor | Joshua L. |
| Last Modifed | Chronicler
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| Info | HOEY, Clyde Roark, a Representative, Governor, and a Senator from North Carolina; last name was pronounced "hoo-ey".
Hoey was 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; was 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; declined to be 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.
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