Clifford C. Ireland

Clifford Cady Ireland ( born February 14, 1878 in Washburn, Woodford County, Illinois, † May 24 in Chicago, Illinois, 1930 ) was an American politician. Between 1917 and 1923 he represented the state of Illinois in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Clifford Ireland attended the public schools of his home and then the Cheltenham Military Academy in Pennsylvania. This is followed by a study completed in Galesburg Knox College. Subsequently, he studied until 1901 at the University of Wisconsin in Madison. After studying law at the Illinois College of Law in Chicago and his 1909 was admitted as a lawyer, he went to work in Peoria in this profession. During the Spanish- American War of 1898, he was a soldier of the National Guard of Illinois.

Politically, Ireland became a member of the Republican Party. In the congressional elections of 1916, he was in the 16th electoral district of Illinois in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he succeeded the Democrats Claude U. Stone on March 4, 1917. After two re- election he was able to complete in Congress until March 3, 1923 three legislative periods. In this time of the First World War fell. Also, were ratified in 1919 and 1920, the 18th and the 19th Amendment. It was about the ban on the trade in alcoholic beverages or to the nationwide introduction of women's suffrage. Between 1917 and 1921 Ireland was chairman of the Committee on Accounts. In 1922, he was not nominated by his party for re-election.

After the end of his time in the U.S. House of Representatives Clifford Ireland again practiced as a lawyer. Between 1923 and 1926 he was Head of Department in the Ministry of Commerce of Illinois. He died on 24 May 1930 in Chicago and was buried in Washburn.