Raymond F. Clevenger

Raymond Francis Clevenger ( born June 6, 1926 in Chicago, Illinois ) is a former American politician. Between 1965 and 1967 he represented the state of Michigan in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Raymond Clevenger attended the public schools in Oak Park. In 1944 he finished high school. In the final phase of the Second World War, he served 1944-1946 in the Medical Corps, the medical service of the U.S. Army. He then continued his education with his studies at Roosevelt University in Chicago and the School of Economics and Political Science, London. After studying law at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor and its made ​​in 1952 admitted to the bar he began in 1953 in Sault Ste. Marie to work in his new profession.

Politically, Clevenger joined the Democratic Party. Between 1954 and 1964 he was a delegate to the regional party conferences in Michigan. In 1956 he participated as delegate to the Democratic National Convention in Chicago in part, was nominated on the Adlai Stevenson for the second time as a presidential candidate. From 1958 to 1960 he was a board member of his party in Michigan. At the same time he also served court officer ( Court Commissioner) in Chippewa County. After that he was in the years 1961-1963, among other security officer of the state of Michigan.

In the congressional elections of 1964, Clevenger was in the eleventh electoral district of Michigan in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he became the successor of Victor A. Knox on January 3, 1965. Since he was not re-elected in 1966, he was able to complete up to January 3, 1967, only one term in Congress, which was shaped by the events of the Vietnam War. After his retirement from the U.S. House of Representatives, he was appointed by President Lyndon B. Johnson as President of the Great Lakes Basin Commission. This post he held 1967-1968; then he again worked as a lawyer. He now lives at an old age in Ann Arbor.

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