Kit Clardy

Kit Francis Clardy ( born June 17, 1892 in Butler, Bates County, Missouri, † September 5, 1961 in Palos Verdes Estates, California ) was an American politician. Between 1953 and 1955 he represented the state of Michigan in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Kit Clardy moved in his youth with his parents first to Kansas City and then in 1907 to Liberty, also in the state of Missouri. In these places, he attended the public schools. After a subsequent law studies at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor and its made ​​in 1925 admitted to the bar he began in Ionia to work in his new profession.

Politically, Clardy member of the Republican Party. Between 1927 and 1931 he served as Deputy Attorney General of Michigan. From 1931 to 1934 he headed the agency responsible for public utilities Commission ( Public Utilities Commission ) of the state. He then worked again as a private lawyer. In the congressional elections of 1952 he was in the sixth constituency of Michigan in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he succeeds William W. Blackney took up on January 3, 1953, against whom he had two years earlier lost in the primary. Since he Democrat Donald Hayworth was defeated in 1956, he was able to complete only one term in Congress until January 3, 1955. He sympathized with the conservative U.S. Senator Joseph McCarthy, and participated in meetings of the Committee on Un-American Activities.

After his retirement from the U.S. House of Representatives Kit Clardy moved to Palos Verdes Estates in Glendale, California. There he is on 5 September 1961, died.

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