Robert McClory

Robert McClory ( born January 31, 1908 in Riverside, Cook County, Illinois, † July 24, 1988 in Washington DC ) was an American politician. Between 1963 and 1983 he represented the state of Illinois in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Robert McClory attended the public schools of his home. In the years 1925 and 1926, he graduated from the L'Institut Sillig in Vevey in Switzerland. Thereafter he attended until 1928 Dartmouth College in Hanover (New Hampshire). After studying law at the Chicago Kent College of Law and was admitted as an attorney of his 1932 he began to work in this profession. Between 1933 and 1937, McClory was a member of the Reserve of the United States Marine Corps. At the same time he suggested as Republicans launched a political career. In 1950 he was elected to the House of Representatives from Illinois. From 1952 to 1962 he sat in the state Senate.

In the congressional elections of 1962, McClory was elected the twelfth electoral district of Illinois in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington, where he became the successor of Edward Rowan Finnegan on January 3, 1963. After nine elections he could pass in Congress until January 3, 1983 ten legislative periods. Since 1973 he represented there as a successor to Phil Crane the 13th district of his state. During his time in Congress were, among others, the Vietnam War, the civil rights movement and in 1974, the Watergate affair. Between 1963 and 1982 he was an American delegate to various inter-parliamentary conferences. In 1982 he gave up another candidacy.

After the end of his time in the U.S. House of Representatives Robert McClory practiced law in Washington, where he died on 24 July 1988.