Clara G. McMillan

Clara G. McMillan

Clara Gooding McMillan (August 17, 1894 - November 8, 1976) was a U.S. Representative from South Carolina, wife of Thomas S. McMillan.

Born in Brunson, South Carolina, Mcmillan attended the public schools, Confederate Home College, Charleston, South Carolina, and Flora MacDonald College, Red Springs, North Carolina.

Mcmillan was elected as a Democrat to the Seventy-sixth Congress by special election, November 7, 1939, to fill the vacancy caused by the death of her husband, Thomas S. McMillan, and served from November 7, 1939, to January 3, 1941.^[1] She was not a candidate for reelection in 1940 to the Seventy-seventh Congress. She served in National Youth Administration, then the Office of Government Reports, Office of War Information, 1941. She was appointed information liaison officer for the Department of State, Washington, D.C., on January 1, 1946, and served until July 31, 1957. Resided in Barnwell, South Carolina, where she died November 8, 1976. She was interred in Magnolia Cemetery, Charleston, South Carolina.

United States House of Representatives
Preceded by Thomas S. McMillan	Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from South Carolina's 1st congressional district 1939–1941	Succeeded by L. Mendel Rivers

Source

• Clara G. McMillan at the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress

References

1. ^ http://books.google.com/books?id=2zsVgCd7unsC&pg=PA87&dq=Clara+G.+McMillan&ei=o2D4Sb6TGITyzQSUtaWtBQ

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Name	Macmillan, Clara G.
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Date of birth	August 17, 1894
Place of birth	Brunson, South Carolina
Date of death	November 8, 1976
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