Clyde Roark Hoey (11 December 1877-12 May 1954) was a member of the US House of Representatives (D-NC 9) from 16 December 1919 to 3 March 1921 (succeeding Edwin Y. Webb and preceding Alfred L. Bulwinkle), Governor of North Carolina from 7 January 1937 to 9 January 1941 (succeeding John C.B. Ehringhaus and preceding J. Melville Broughton), and a US Senator from 3 January 1945 to 12 May 1954 (succeeding Robert Rice Reynolds and preceding Sam Ervin).
Biography[]
Clyde Roark Hoey was born in Shelby, North Carolina in 1877, and he was elected to the state legislature at the age of 20, serving in the State House from 1898 to 1902, in the State Senate from 1902 to 1904, in the US House of Representatives from 1919 to 1921, as Governor from 1937 to 1941, and in the US Senate from 1945 until his death in 1954. He supported segregated higher education for Blacks, but he argued that Black people deserved no civil rights, as they were not on the Mayflower. He privately opposed a third term for President Franklin D. Roosevelt and supported Cordell Hull for President, and he became a conservative Democratic US Senator from 1945 until his death in 1954. He opposed statehood for Hawaii due to its large non-white population and called for Hawaiian independence, citing Cuba and the Philippines as precedents. He died in Washington DC in 1954.