Clifford Philip Case Jr. (16 April 1904 – 5 March 1982) was a US Senator (R-NJ) from 3 January 1955 to 3 January 1979, succeeding Robert C. Hendrickson and preceding Bill Bradley. He previously served as a member of the US House of Representatives (R-NJ 6) from 3 January 1945 to 16 August 1953, succeeding Donald H. McLean and preceding Harrison A. Williams.
Biography[]
Clifford Philip Case Jr. was born in Franklin Township, New Jersey in 1904, and he worked as a lawyer in New York before being elected to the Rahway Common Council, serving from 1938 to 1942. In 1944, he was elected to the US House of Representatives, and he earned a reputation as a liberal Republican Party member. He supported the Civil Rights movement, desegregation, and anti-discrimination laws in the workforce, and he would be elected to the US Senate in 1954. He launched a failed presidential bid in 1968, and he lost the 1978 Republican senatorial primary to anti-tax conservative Jeffrey Bell.