Clement J. Zablocki

Clement John Zablocki ( born November 18, 1912 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, † December 3, 1983 in Washington DC ) was an American politician. Between 1949 and 1983 he represented the state of Wisconsin in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Clement Zablocki attended the common schools and then studied until 1936 at Marquette University. In the years 1938 and 1939 he worked as a teacher in Milwaukee. Between 1932 and 1948, Zablocki was also organist and choirmaster. Later he became a lieutenant colonel in the U.S. Air Force Reserve. Politically, he was a member of the Democratic Party. From 1942 to 1948 he was a member of the Senate of Wisconsin. In 1948 he was chairman of the regional democratic party convention in that State. Between 1952 and 1968 he was a delegate to all Democratic National Conventions. In 1948, Zablocki ran unsuccessfully for the office of city treasurer of Milwaukee. In 1957, he competed unsuccessfully for his party's nomination for a by-election to the U.S. Senate.

In the congressional elections of 1948, Zablocki was selected in the fourth electoral district of Wisconsin in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington, where he became the successor of John C. Brophy on January 3, 1949. After 16 Re-elections he could remain until his death on December 3, 1983 at the Congress. In this time, among other things, the Cold War, the Korean War, the Vietnam War, the Watergate scandal, the civil rights movement and the occupation of the American embassy in Iran fell in 1979. Was then that five other constitutional amendments have been adopted. From 1977-1979 Zablocki was chairman of the Committee on International Relations. Later he headed between 1979 and 1981 the Foreign Affairs Committee.

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