Hiester Clymer

Hiester Clymer (* November 3, 1827 at Morgantown, Berks County, Pennsylvania, † June 12, 1884 in Reading, Pennsylvania ) was an American politician. Between 1873 and 1881 he represented the State of Pennsylvania in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Hiester Clymer came from the Pennsylvania politically important Hiester family. Many of his relatives dressed at the state and federal political office. He attended the public schools in Reading and graduated in 1847 the Princeton College. After a subsequent law degree in 1849 and its recent approval as a lawyer, he began to work in Reading and Berks County in in this profession. Between 1851 and 1856 he practiced this activity in Pottsville; then he returned to Reading. At the same time he proposed as a member of the Democratic Party launched a political career. In January 1860, he represented the Berks County Tax Commission of the State of Pennsylvania. In the same year he was a delegate part in two Democratic National Conventions, held in Charleston and Baltimore. Between 1860 and 1866 Clymer sat in the Senate of Pennsylvania. In 1866 he ran unsuccessfully for the office of Governor of Pennsylvania. Two years later he was again a delegate to the Democratic National Convention, and in 1870 he was a member of the welfare committee of his state.

In the congressional elections of 1872 Clymer was in the eighth constituency of Pennsylvania in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he became the successor of James Lawrence Getz on March 4, 1873. After three re- elections, he was able to complete in Congress until March 3, 1881 four legislative sessions. During this time he led the Committee to control expenditure of the War Department and the Grants Committee (both 1875-1877 ) and the Committee to monitor the expenditure of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs ( 1879-1881 ). In 1876 he investigated the behavior of Minister of War William W. Belknap, who then had to give up his office for corruption. In 1880, Hiester Clymer gave up another candidacy.

After the end of his time in the U.S. House of Representatives was Clymer Vice President of Union Trust Company in Philadelphia and president of the Clymer Iron Company. He died on 12 June 1884 in Reading.