Clarence Wyly Turner (October 22, 1866 –March 23, 1939) was an American politician who served in the United States Congress as a member of the

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from

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Biography

Turner was born on October 22, 1866 on a farm near Clydeton, in

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the son of Charles N. and Hettie B. Turner. He attended the public schools, a preparatory school in Edgewood in

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, and National Normal Institute in

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. He graduated from the law department of Northern Indiana Normal School at

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in 1904. He was admitted to the

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the same year and commenced practice at

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, in Humphreys County. He was also the editor of the ''Waverly Sentinel''.

Career

The chairman of the Democratic committee of Humphreys County for fifteen years, Turner was also a member of the

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in 1900, 1901, and from 1909 to 1912. He was a delegate to the Democratic National Committee in 1920. He was elected mayor of Waverly, Tennessee in 1920, and also worked as a city attorney. Elected as a

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to Sixty-seventh Congress by the

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to fill the vacancy caused by the death of

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, Turner served from November 7, 1922 to March 3, 1923. He was not a candidate in 1922 for re-election to the Sixty-eighth Congress. Turner returned to Waverly, Tennessee and engaged in banking and agricultural pursuits. He served as the

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of Humphreys County from 1924 to 1933. He was elected to the Seventy-third and to the three succeeding Congresses by Tennessee's 6th congressional district. He served from March 4, 1933 until his death in

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on March 23, 1939.

Death

After his death in

on March 23, 1939, Turner's remains were transported and he is

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in Marable Cemetery in Waverly, Tennessee.

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Memorial services held in the House of Representatives of the United States, together with remarks presented in eulogy of Clarence Wily Turner, late a representative from Tennessee frontispiece 1939
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