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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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.


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
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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
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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
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by the
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to fill the vacancy caused by the death of
Lemuel P. Padgett Lemuel Phillips Padgett (November 28, 1855 – August 2, 1922) was an American politician and a member of the United States House of Representatives for the 7th congressional district of Tennessee. Biography Born in Columbia, Tennessee, in ...
, 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
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. He served from March 4, 1933, until his death in
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, on March 23, 1939.


Death

After his death in
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, on March 23, 1939, Turner's remains were transported and he is
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in Marable Cemetery in Waverly, Tennessee.


See also

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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
{{DEFAULTSORT:Turner, Clarence Wyly 1866 births 1939 deaths Mayors of places in Tennessee Heads of county government in Tennessee Democratic Party Tennessee state senators Valparaiso University alumni Democratic Party members of the United States House of Representatives from Tennessee People from Humphreys County, Tennessee People from Waverly, Tennessee 20th-century members of the United States House of Representatives