| LC control no. | no2008037197 |
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| Descriptive conventions | rda |
| Personal name heading | Lea, Clarence Frederick, 1874-1964 |
| Variant(s) | Lea, Mr. (Clarence Frederick), 1874-1964 |
| Birth date | 1874-07-11 |
| Death date | 1964-06-20 |
| Place of birth | Lake County (Calif.) |
| Place of death | Santa Rosa (Calif.) |
| Affiliation | United States. Congress. House |
| Profession or occupation | Lawyers Legislators--United States |
| Found in | Labeling foreign products, 1928: p. 1 (Mr. Lea, from the Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce) Biog. dir. of the U.S. Cong. online, viewed Mar. 8, 2008 (Lea, Clarence Frederick, a Representative from Calif.; b. July 11, 1874; d. June 20, 1964) Wikipedia, April 15, 2021 (Clarence F. Lea; Clarence Frederick Lea (July 11, 1874 - June 20, 1964) was a U.S. Representative from California; he was born near Highland Springs, California, in southwestern Lake County; he and obtained a degree in law from the University of Denver, in Denver, Colorado, in 1898; Lea was admitted to the bar the same year and began practicing in Santa Rosa, California; he served as district attorney of Sonoma County, 1907-1917, and as president of the District Attorney's Association of California in 1916 and 1917; he was elected as a Democrat to the Sixty-fifth and to the fifteen succeeding Congresses (March 4, 1917 - January 3, 1949); he served as chairman of the Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce (Seventy-fifth through Seventy-ninth Congresses); he was not a candidate for renomination in 1948; Lea engaged in public relations work in Washington, D.C. from 1949 to 1954; he died in Santa Rosa, California on June 20, 1964) |
| Associated language | eng |
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