Wynne F. Clouse (August 29, 1883 – February 19, 1944) was a

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from

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Biography

Born in Goffton, near

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, 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. and from

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, Lebanon, Tennessee, in 1911, where studied law at

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. He was

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in 1911 and commenced practice in

, in 1912. He served as delegate to the Republican National Conventions in 1916 and 1924.

Career

Clouse was elected as a

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to the Sixty-seventh Congress (March 4, 1921 – March 3, 1923). 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.

Death

Clouse died in

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, February 19, 1944 (age 60 years, 174 days). He is interred at Mount Hope Cemetery.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Clouse, Wynne F. 1883 births 1944 deaths Republican Party members of the United States House of Representatives from Tennessee 20th-century American politicians