Clarence Cleveland Dill was an American politician from the state of Washington.
14 Facts About Clarence Dill
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Clarence Dill completed his undergraduate work at the University of Delaware in 1907.
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Clarence Dill taught English at South Central High School and was a newspaper reporter at The Spokesman-Review in the summer.
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Clarence Dill became a lawyer in 1910, and soon entered politics.
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Clarence Dill was elected to the US House in 1914 and 1916 from the newly created fifth district.
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Clarence Dill's vote was controversial among his constituents, including members of his own party.
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Clarence Dill was elected to the US Senate in 1922, beating two-term incumbent Republican Miles Poindexter.
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Clarence Dill carried Spokane County, much of Eastern Washington, and the urban counties of the Puget Sound region.
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Clarence Dill was re-elected in 1928, but did not seek a third term in 1934.
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Senator Clarence Dill sponsored the new act since he thought Pullman porters and maids should be black.
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Clarence Dill then served as a member of the Columbia Basin Commission from 1945 to 1948, and as a special assistant to the US Attorney General from 1946 to 1953.
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Clarence Dill died in 1978 in Spokane at the age of 93, the last living US senator elected before the Great Depression.
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Clarence Dill claimed that Jones told his friends that he was "a political coward" for not seeking re-election in 1934, and that she buried dogs and garbage in the backyard.
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Clarence Dill met home economics educator Mabel Aileen Dickson in November 1936 in Washington, DC, and they were married in May 1939.