John Daniel Clardy

John Daniel Clardy ( born August 30, 1828 Smith County, Tennessee; † August 20, 1918 in Hopkinsville, Kentucky ) was an American politician. Between 1895 and 1899 he represented the state of Kentucky in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

In 1831, John Clardy came with his parents in the Christian County in Kentucky, where he attended the public schools. In 1848 he graduated from the Georgetown College; afterwards, he taught for a year as a teacher. After a subsequent medical studies at the University of Louisville in Lexington and the University of Pennsylvania and his 1851 was admitted as a doctor, he started working in this profession for several years. Then he gave up this profession in order to devote himself to experimental agriculture and animal husbandry.

Politically, Clardy member of the Democratic Party. In 1890 he was a delegate at a meeting on the revision of the Constitution of Kentucky. In 1893 he was one of the representatives of his country at the World 's Columbian Exposition, the Chicago World's Fair. In the congressional elections of 1894 he was in the second electoral district of Kentucky in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he became the successor of William Thomas Ellis on March 4, 1895. After a re-election he was able to complete in Congress until March 3, 1899 two legislative sessions. In this time of the Spanish-American War was.

In 1898, John Clardy opted not to run again. He retired from politics in his retirement back, which he spent on his estate " Oakland " near Hopkinsville. There he is on August 20, 1918 ten days before his 90th birthday, died.