- Wynne F. Clouse
Wynne F. Clouse (
August 29 ,1883 -February 19 ,1944 ) was a U.S. Representative fromTennessee .Born in Goffton, near
Cookeville, Tennessee , Clouse attended the public schools.He was graduated fromCleveland Hill Academy ,Pleasant Hill, Tennessee , in 1898 and fromCumberland University ,Lebanon, Tennessee , in 1911, where studied law atCumberland School of Law .He was admitted to the bar in 1911 and commenced practice inCookeville, Tennessee , in 1912.He served as delegate to the Republican National Conventions in 1916 and 1924.Clouse was elected as a Republican to the Sixty-seventh Congress (
March 4 ,1921 -March 3 ,1923 ).He was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1922 to the Sixty-eighth Congress.He resumed the practice of law in the city of Nashville.He was appointed receiver of the Tennessee Central Railroad Co..He 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.He died inFranklin, Tennessee ,February 19 ,1944 .He was interred in Mount Hope Cemetery.ource
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