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Senate Years of Service: 1945-1954 Party: Democrat
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HOEY, Clyde Roark, a Representative and a Senator from North Carolina; born in Shelby, Cleveland
County, N.C., on December 11, 1877; attended the public schools; learned the printing trade and
later became, at the age of sixteen, owner, editor and publisher of the Cleveland Star; graduated from
the law department of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill; admitted to the bar in 1899
and commenced the practice of law in Shelby, N.C.; member, State house of commons 1898-1902;
member, State senate 1902-1904; assistant United States attorney for the western district of North
Carolina 1913-1919; elected on December 16, 1919, as a Democrat to the Sixty-sixth Congress to
fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of Edwin Y. Webb and served from December 16, 1919, to
March 3, 1921; was not a candidate for renomination in 1920; resumed the practice of law;
Governor of North Carolina 1937-1941; elected as a Democrat to the United States Senate in 1944;
reelected in 1950 and served from January 3, 1945, until his death in his Senate office in Washington,
D.C., May 12, 1954; interment in Sunset Cemetery, Shelby, N.C.
BibliographyDictionary of American Biography;
Hatcher, Susan A. The Senatorial Career of Clyde R. Hoey. Ph.D. dissertation, Duke University,
1983; U.S. Congress. Memorial Addresses. 83rd Cong., 2nd sess., 1954.
Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office, 1954.
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