Edwin a hoey biography
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Clyde R. Hoey
American politician
Clyde Roark Hoey | |
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| In office January 3, 1945 – May 12, 1954 | |
| Preceded by | Robert R. Reynolds |
| Succeeded by | Sam Ervin |
| In office January 7, 1937 – January 9, 1941 | |
| Lieutenant | Wilkins P. Horton |
| Preceded by | John C.B. Ehringhaus |
| Succeeded by | J. Melville Broughton |
| In office December 16, 1919 – March 3, 1921 | |
| Preceded by | Edwin Y. Webb |
| Succeeded by | Alfred L. Bulwinkle |
| In office 1902-1904 | |
| In office 1898-1902 | |
| Born | (1877-12-11)December 11, 1877 Shelby, North Carolina, U.S. |
| Died | May 12, 1954(1954-05-12) (aged 76) Washington, D.C., U.S. |
| Political party | Democratic |
| Spouse | Margaret Gardner Hoey |
Clyde Roark Hoey (December 11, 1877 – May 12, 1954) was an American Democratic politician from North Carolina. He served in both houses of the state legislature and served briefly in the U.S. House of Representatives from 1919 to 1921. He was North Carolina's governor from 1937 to 1941. He entered the U.S. Senate in 1945 and served there until his death in 1954, only days before the Brown v. Board of Education decision. He was a segregationist.
Biography
[edit]Hoey (HOO-ee)[1] was born to Captain Samuel Alberta Hoey, a C
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Source: From DICTIONARY OF NORTH CAROLINA BIOGRAPHY edited by William S. Powell. Copyright (c) 1979-1996 by the University of North Carolina Press. Used by permission of the publisher. www.uncpress.unc.edu
Clyde Roark Hoey (11 Dec. 1877-12 May 1954), printer, newspaper publisher, state legislator, attorney general, governor, congressman, and U.S. senator, was born in Shelby, the fifth child of Mary Charlotte and Samuel Alberta Hoey, a Confederate captain. At age twelve, when his father's health failed, he left school to earn a living. From the time of his first job as a printer's devil at the Shelby Aurora, beginning 1 Oct. 1890, Hoey expressed a maturity beyond his years. After a brief period in Shelby, he became a printer at the Charlotte Observer. While in Charlotte he heard that the Shelby Review was in financial straits. He hurried home and purchased the newspaper on 1 Aug. 1894 with promises to pay off the creditors; at sixteen he became publisher of the paper under the name of the Cleveland Star.
When he was only twenty, the Democrats of his native Cleveland County nominated Hoey for the General Assembly. He was elected after a hotly contested campaign and served in 1899; two years later he was reelected. In 1903 he was a state senator from the Thirty-third Distric
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Edwin A. Hoey, who lives live in Middletown, U.s., is managing editor disrespect secondary Side publications parallel with the ground Xerox Schooling Publications.