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Clyde Roark Hoey (December 11, 1877 – May 12, 1954) was an American Democratic politician from North Carolina. He served in both houses of the state legislature and served briefly in the U.S. House of Representatives from 1919 to 1921. He was North Carolina's governor from 1937 to 1941.
11 Dec. 1877–12 May 1954. See also: Clyde Roark Hoey, Research Branch, NC Office of Archives and History, Margaret Hoey. Clyde Roark Hoey, printer, newspaper publisher, state legislator, attorney general, governor, congressman, and U.S. senator, was born in Shelby, the fifth child of Mary Charlotte and Samuel Alberta Hoey, a Confederate captain.
Gov. Clyde Roark Hoey. Terms January 7, 1937 - January 4, 1941 ; Party Democratic ; Born December 11, 1877 ; Passed May 12, 1954 ; Birth State North Carolina ; School University of North Carolina
Written By Douglas Carl Abrams. The administration of Clyde R. Hoey as governor from 1937 to 1941 reaffirmed conservative rule in the state and also the power of the “Shelby dynasty,” the label given to the political organization of former governor Max Gardner, Hoey’s brother-in-law and fellow resident of Shelby.
Biography. HOEY, CLYDE ROARK, a Representative and a Senator from North Carolina; born in Shelby, Cleveland County, N.C., on December 11, 1877; attended the public schools; learned the printing trade and later became, at the age of sixteen, owner, editor and publisher of the Cleveland Star; graduated from the law department of the University of ...
Clyde Roark Hoey (11 December 1877 -- 12 May 1954) was the Democratic governor of the state of North Carolina from 1937 to 1941. Hoey later served as a Democratic US Senator from 1945 until his death in 1954. He was also a member of the US House of Representatives from 1919 to 1921.
The Clyde Roark Hoey Papers consist of office files created during Hoey's service in the United States Senate from 1944 through April, 1954. Correspondence, typed and printed material, clippings, and pictures provide a chronicle of Hoey's national political career as well as of American affairs during the early post-World War II period.
