Robert Henry Clancy (March 14, 1882 – April 23, 1962) was a politician from the

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. Clancy was born in

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, where he attended the public schools. He graduated from the literary department of the

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at Ann Arbor in 1907 and he later studied law there for one year. He worked as a reporter on Detroit newspapers for four years before serving as secretary to Congressman Frank E. Doremus from 1911 to 1913. He then served as secretary to Assistant

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Edwin F. Sweet from 1913 to 1917. During

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, he was manager of the War Trade Board at Detroit, chief inspector of purchases in Michigan for the Medical Corps of the War Department, and recruiting officer of the aviation division in Detroit. He was United States customs appraiser for Michigan from 1917 to 1922. During

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he was arrested along with the mayor of Detroit and the Wayne County sheriff at the Deutches Hall while consuming alcohol. In 1922, Clancy was elected as a

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from

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to the 68th Congress, serving from March 4, 1923, to March 3, 1925. He was defeated by

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John B. Sosnowski John Bartholomew Sosnowski (December 8, 1883 – July 16, 1968) was a politician from the U.S. state of Michigan. Sosnowski was born in a Polish family in Detroit, Michigan, and attended the parochial and Army schools. During the Spanish–Ameri ...

in the 1924 election. After leaving Congress, he engaged in the real-estate business until the next election. In the 1926 election, he switched parties and ran as a Republican, defeating the incumbent Sosnowski in the primary, and going on to defeat Democratic candidate William M. Donnelly in the general election for a seat in the 70th Congress. In 1928 and 1930, Clancy again defeated Sosnowski in the Republican primary and Donnelly in the general election to be re-elected to the 71st and 72nd Congresses, serving from March 4, 1927, to March 3, 1933. In 1932, Clancy was a candidate in the Fourteenth Congressional District in Michigan, due to redistricting after the 1930 Census. Clancy lost to Democrat

Carl M. Weideman Carl May Weideman (March 5, 1898 – March 5, 1972) was a naval officer, politician and jurist from the U.S. state of Michigan. Biography Weideman was born of German ancestry in Detroit, Michigan and attended the public schools. He also attende ...

, after which he was engaged in an executive capacity with a manufacturing company until his retirement in 1948. He died in Detroit and is interred there in Mount Olivet Cemetery.

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at The Political Graveyard * {{DEFAULTSORT:Clancy, Robert H. 1882 births 1962 deaths Politicians from Detroit University of Michigan Law School alumni Republican Party members of the United States House of Representatives from Michigan Democratic Party members of the United States House of Representatives from Michigan United States Customs Service personnel 20th-century American politicians