Wynne F. Clouse Explained

Wynne F. Clouse
State:Tennessee
District:4th
Term Start:March 4, 1921
Term End:March 3, 1923
Preceded:Cordell Hull
Succeeded:Cordell Hull
Birth Date: August 29, 1883
Birth Place:Putnam County, Tennessee, United States
Death Place:Franklin, Tennessee
Spouse:Linnie Shine Dowell Clouse
Children:Eunetta Clouse
Profession:Attorneypolitician
Party:Republican
Alma Mater:Cumberland University

Wynne F. Clouse (August 29, 1883 – February 19, 1944) was a U.S. Representative from Tennessee.

Biography

Born in Goffton, near Cookeville, Tennessee, Clouse was the son of Thomas Jefferson and Eunetta Zina Bumbalough Clouse. He attended the public schools and was graduated from Cleveland Hill Academy, Pleasant Hill, Tennessee, in 1898. He married Linnie Shine Dowell on December 23, 1907 and had a child, Eunetta Clouse.[1] and from Cumberland University, Lebanon, Tennessee, in 1911, where studied law at Cumberland School of Law. He was admitted to the bar in 1911 and commenced practice in Cookeville, Tennessee, in 1912. He served as delegate to the Republican National Conventions in 1916 and 1924.

Career

Clouse was elected as a Republican to the Sixty-seventh Congress (March 4, 1921 – March 3, 1923).[2] An unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1922 to the Sixty-eighth Congress, he resumed the practice of law in the city of Nashville.

Appointed receiver of the Tennessee Central Railroad Company, Clouse served as special assistant to the Attorney General of the United States in 1924. He was appointed Referee in Bankruptcy for the Nashville division of the middle district of Tennessee and served until his resignation in January 1940.[3]

Death

Clouse died in Franklin, Tennessee, February 19, 1944 (age 60 years, 174 days). He is interred at Mount Hope Cemetery.[4]

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Notes and References

  1. Web site: Wynne F. Clouse. Ancestry.com. 5 May 2013.
  2. Web site: Wynne F. Clouse. Govtrack US Congress. 5 May 2013.
  3. Web site: Wynne F. Clouse. Biographical Directory of the United States Congress. 5 May 2013.
  4. Web site: Wynne F. Clouse. The Political Graveyard. 5 May 2013.