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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.
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.
Clyde R. Hoey, Gardner's brother-in-law, was elected Governor in 1936. He later served in the U.S. Senate, from 1945 until his death in 1954. Image courtesy of the North Carolina Office of Archives and History, Raleigh, NC.
CLYDE R. HOEY, the fifty-ninth governor of North Carolina, was born in Shelby, North Carolina on December 11, 1877. His early education was attained in the local public schools. At the age of twelve, he left school to become a printer’s apprentice.
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 Hoey's senatorial files accumulated in his offices in Washington, D. C. and Shelby N. C. The papers cover the period from 1943 through April, 1954, but there are few items for 1943.
