Clyde R. Hoey
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Clyde Roark Hoey was an American Democratic politician from North Carolina. He served in both houses of the state legislature and served briefly in the U.S. House of Representatives from 1919 to 1921.
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Luke Lea was an American attorney, politician and newspaper publisher. A Democrat, he was most notable for his service as a United States Senator from Tennessee from 1911 to 1917. Lea was the longtime
Clyde R. Hoey
…as governor, Hoey advocated progressive measures such as the provision of free school textbooks and new labor legislation. In July 1937, he pardoned Luke Lea, a Tennessee politician and former U.S. senator, who had been paroled a year earlier. His appointment of a black man to the board of trustees of a black…
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Lea at the 1912 Democratic Convention