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Robert McClory

Robert McClory (31 January 1908 – 24 July 1988) was a member of the US House of Representatives (R-IL 12) from 3 January 1963 to 3 January 1973 (succeeding Edward R. Finnegan and preceding Phil Crane) and from IL-13 from 3 January 1973 to 3 January 1983 (succeeding Crane and preceding John N. Erlenborn).

Biography[]

Robert McClory was born in Riverside, Illinois on 31 January 1908, and he became a lawyer in 1932 and served in the US Marine Corps reserve from 1933 to 1937. He went on to serve in the State House from 1951 to 1953 and in the State Senate from 1953 to 1963, when he was elected to serve in the US House of Representatives as a Republican. He was a member of the House Judiciary Committee during the Watergate scandal, and he retired in 1983 and died in 1988.

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