Clinton Presba Anderson

Clinton Presba Anderson ( born October 23, 1895 in Centerville, Turner County, South Dakota, † November 11, 1975 in Albuquerque, New Mexico ) was an American politician of the Democratic Party, both deputy in the House of Representatives and U.S. Senator for New Mexico and Minister of Agriculture of the United States.

Biography

Study and career

After attending public schools, he studied from 1913 to 1915 at the Dakota Wesleyan University and then to 1916 at the University of Michigan. After moving to Albuquerque he was there 1918-1922 Reporter and editor of a daily newspaper. Subsequently, he was from 1922 to 1946 a time as the insurance broker in New Mexico Loan and Mortgage Company. In addition, he was president of Rotary International in 1930.

His political career began in 1933 as Minister of Finance ( Treasurer ) of the State of New Mexico; he belonged to the state government of Republican Governor Andrew Hockenhull to 1934. Then in 1935 for a short time as an administrator head of the New Mexico Relief Administration, before he was from 1935 to 1936 a representative of the Federal Emergency Relief Administration ( FERA ) in New Mexico. Subsequently, he was from 1936 to 1938, first chairman and managing director of the Unemployment Compensation Commission ( Unemployment Compensation Commission ) in New Mexico and most recently 1939-1940 Executive Director of the U.S. Coronado Exposition Commission.

Congressman and Minister of Agriculture

In 1940 he was elected as a Democratic Party candidate for member of the U.S. House of Representatives for New Mexico. There he took after his re- election in 1942 and 1944, from 3 January 1941 until his resignation on 30 June 1945, the interests of the first congressional district of the state.

On June 30, 1945, appointed to his cabinet Presba Clinton Anderson of U.S. President Harry S. Truman as Minister of Agriculture ( Secretary of Agriculture ). This cabinet post he held until his resignation on 10 May 1948.

U.S. Senator for New Mexico

1948 Anderson was first elected to the U.S. Senator for New Mexico and thus the successor of Carl Atwood Hatch, who had not a candidate again. After his re- election in 1954, 1960 and 1966, he was dated January 3, 1949 to January 3, 1973 owner of the second Senate seat ( Class 2 ) of the state.

During his long tenure, he was from 1955 to 1956 and from 1959 to 1960 Chairman of the Joint Committee on Atomic Energy ( Joint Committee on Atomic Energy ) and 1955-1964 Chairman of the Joint Committee for the construction of the buildings of the Smithsonian Institution ( Joint Committee on Construction of Building for Smithsonian ) and 1955 to 1972 of the Joint Committee on Navaho - Hopi Pueblo Indians ( joint Committee on Navaho - Hopi Indian). After further work from 1957 to 1960 as Chairman of the Special Committee for the Preservation of the Senate records (Special Committee on Preservation of Senate Records) Clinton was Presba Anderson 1961-1964 Chairman of the Senate Committee on Interior and insular Affairs ( Senate Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs ). In addition, he was from 1961 to 1962 Chairman of the Special Committee on National Fuel Policy ( Special Committee on National Fuel Policy) and, most recently from 1963 to 1972 of Senatssauschusses for air and space sciences ( Senate Committee on Aeronautical and Space Sciences).

1970 published his memoirs under the title Outsider in the Senate, Senator Clinton Anderson's Memoirs. In 1972 he gave up for reelection and retired to his retirement from the U.S. Senate on January 3, 1973, the public life.