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| Date Born: December 11, 1877 |
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Date Died: May 12, 1954 |
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| Place Born: Shelby, NC |
Place Buried: Sunset Cemetery in Shelby, NC |
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| Residence: Shelby, NC |
Occupation: Lawyer |
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| Clyde Roark Hoey (11 December 1877 -- 12 May
1954) was the Democratic governor of the state of North Carolina
from 1937 to 1941. Hoey later served as a Democratic US Senator
from 1945 until his death in 1954. He was also a member of the
US House of Representatives from 1919 to 1921. 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. |
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