Clifford Cady Ireland (February 14, 1878 – May 24, 1930) was a

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from

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Biography

Born in

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, Ireland attended the common schools, Cheltenham Military Academy,

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, and Knox College,

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. He was graduated from the

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in 1901 and from the Illinois College of Law at Chicago in 1908. He was

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in 1909 and commenced practice in Peoria. He served as a private in the Illinois National Guard during the Spanish–American War. Ireland was elected as a Republican to the Sixty-fifth, Sixty-sixth, and Sixty-seventh Congresses (March 4, 1917 – March 3, 1923). He served as chairman of the Committee on Accounts (Sixty-sixth and Sixty-seventh Congresses). He was an unsuccessful candidate for renomination in 1922. He resumed the practice of law at Peoria. He was appointed a director of the department of trade and commerce of Illinois in 1923, serving until his resignation in 1926. He died in

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, May 24, 1930. He was interred in Linn-Mount Vernon Cemetery,

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Ireland, Clifford Cady 1878 births 1930 deaths University of Wisconsin–Madison alumni Illinois National Guard personnel People from Cheltenham, Pennsylvania Republican Party members of the United States House of Representatives from Illinois Politicians from Peoria, Illinois People from Washburn, Illinois 20th-century members of the United States House of Representatives