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Senate Years of Service: 1949-1973 Party: Democrat
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ANDERSON, Clinton Presba, a Representative and a Senator from New Mexico; born in Centerville, Turner
County, S.Dak., October 23, 1895; attended the public schools, Dakota Wesleyan University,
Mitchell, S.Dak., and the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor; moved to Albuquerque, N.Mex., in
1917; newspaper reporter and editor in Albuquerque 1918-1922; engaged in the general insurance
business at Albuquerque 1922-1946; served as treasurer of State of New Mexico 1933-1934;
administrator of the New Mexico Relief Administration 1935; field representative of the Federal
Emergency Relief Administration 1935-1936; chairman and executive director of the Unemployment
Compensation Commission of New Mexico 1936-1938; managing director of the United States
Coronado Exposition Commission 1939-1940; elected as a Democrat to the Seventy-seventh and to
the two succeeding Congresses, and served from January 3, 1941, until his resignation on June 30,
1945, having been appointed Secretary of Agriculture; served as Secretary of Agriculture from June
30, 1945, until his resignation May 10, 1948; elected as a Democrat to the United States Senate in
1948; reelected in 1954, 1960 and 1966, and served from January 3, 1949, to January 3, 1973; was
not a candidate for reelection in 1972; chairman, Joint Committee on Atomic Energy (Eighty-fourth
and Eighty-sixth Congresses), Joint Committee on Construction of Building for Smithsonian
(Eighty-fourth through Eighty-eighth Congresses), Joint Committee on Navaho-Hopi Indian
(Eighty-fourth through the Ninety-second Congresses), Special Committee on Preservation of Senate
Records (Eighty-fifth and Eighty-sixth Congresses), Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs
(Eighty-seventh and Eighty-eighth Congresses), Special Committee on National Fuel Policy
(Eighty-seventh Congress), Committee on Aeronautical and Space Sciences (Eighty-eighth through
Ninety-second Congresses); returned to Albuquerque and retired from active pursuits; died November
11, 1975; interment in Fairview Memorial Park.
BibliographyAmerican National Biography; Dictionary of American Biography; Anderson, Clinton P. Outsider in the Senate,
Senator Clinton Andersons Memoirs. New York: World Publishing Company, 1970; Baker,
Richard Allan. Conservation Politics: The Senate Career of Clinton P. Anderson. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 1985.
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