William E. Cleary

William Edward Cleary ( born July 20, 1849 in Ellenville, New York, † December 20, 1932 in Brooklyn, New York ) was an American politician. He represented 1918-1921 and 1923-1927 the State of New York in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

William Edward Cleary was born about one and a half years after the end of the Mexican - American War in Ellenville and grew up there. During this time he attended public schools and the Ellenville Academy. In 1879 he moved to the then still independent city of Brooklyn, where he pursued the water transport. Cleary was Vice President of the New York Board of Trade and Transportation. He was also founder and president of Victory Memorial Hospital. Politically, he was a member of the Democratic Party.

He was in a by-election on March 5, 1918 in the eighth electoral district of New York in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, there to fill the vacancy that was created by the resignation of Daniel J. Griffin. In the regular congressional elections in the same year he was elected to the 66th Congress. In 1920 he suffered in his re-election bid a defeat and retired after March 3, 1921 the Congress of. Cleary was a candidate in 1922 for a seat in the 68th Congress. After a successful election, he entered on March 4, 1923, the successor of Charles G. Bond. He was re-elected once. Since he gave up for reelection in 1926, he retired after March 3 in 1927 from the Congress.

After his conference time he went back to his previous transactions. He died on 20 December 1932 in Brooklyn and was buried there on the Holy Cross Cemetery.