Clarence Dill

Clarence Cleveland Dill ( born September 21, 1884 Knox County, Ohio; † January 14, 1978 in Spokane, Washington ) was an American politician of the Democratic Party. He represented the State of Washington in both chambers of the U.S. Congress.

Life

Clarence Dill, who was born near Fredericktown, Ohio, worked after school initially self as a teacher. After graduating from Ohio Wesleyan University in Delaware, he worked as a newspaper journalist before he moved to Spokane in 1908, and there again took a teaching job. He then studied law, was admitted to the bar in 1910 and commenced practice as a lawyer. Between 1911 and 1913, Dill was a deputy district attorney in Spokane County; in 1913 he also served as private secretary to the Governor of Washington, Ernest Lister.

Policy

1914 began his political career with election to the U.S. House of Representatives. After two terms, he was defeated during re- election attempt in 1918, the Republican J. Stanley Webster and retired from the Congress. But he succeeded in 1922 to win a seat in the U.S. Senate. Again, he completed two terms and retired in 1935 from voluntary.

In 1940, Dill ran for the governorship of Washington, but lost to the Republican Arthur B. Langlie. Two years later he made ​​his last attempt to get elected to public office, but missed the return to the House of Representatives to Republican Walt Horan. As a result, he was from 1945 to 1948 a member of the Columbia Basin Commission and 1946-1953 Special Advisor to the U.S. Attorney General from 1946 to 1953.

After Dill again worked as a lawyer in Spokane, before he died in 1978. He was the last surviving U.S. Senator from the period before the Great Depression.