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Zablocki, Clement John (1912 - 1983)
Representative from Wisconsin; born in Milwaukee, Wis., November 18, 1912; attended parochial school and Marquette University High School; Ph.B., Marquette University, 1936; taught high school in Milwaukee in 1938 and 1939; organist and choir director 1932 1948; member of the State senate 1942-1948; chairman of the Democratic State convention in 1948; delegate, Democratic National Conventions, 1952, 1956, 1960, 1964, and 1968; was an unsuccessful candidate for the office of city controller of Milwaukee in 1948; United States delegate to the fourteenth session of the United States General Assembly in 1959; lieutenant colonel in the United States Air Forces Reserve; in 1957 was unsuccessful for the senatorial nomination to fill a vacancy in the United States Senate; elected as a Democrat to the Eighty-first and to the sixteen succeeding Congresses and served from January 3, 1949, until his death December 3, 1983, in Washington, D.C.; chairman, Committee on International Relations (Ninety-fifth Congress), Committee on Foreign Affairs (Ninety-sixth through Ninety-eighth Congresses); interment in St. Adalbert's Cemetery, Milwaukee, Wis.
Bibliography
Leahy, Stephen M. The Life of Milwaukee's Most Popular Politician, Clement J.
Zablocki: Milwaukee Politics and Congressional Foreign Policy. Lewiston, N.Y.:
E. Mellen Press, 2002.
Source: Congressional data Base (2008)
Zablocki, Clemens
Public official. State Senator of 3rd Senatorial District in Wisconsin. Born in Milwaukee, Wis., where he received his early education. Graduate of Marquette High School. Received Bachelor of Philosophy degree from Marquette University, Milwaukee, Wis. Instructor of Polish and English in Kosciuszko High School, Milwaukee, Wis., for several years. Former teacher of naturalization classes. Former organist of St. Mary Magdalene Church and now (1943) organist at St.Vincent de Paul Church, Milwaukee, Wis. Member of Holy Name Society and other organizations. In 1942 elected state senator from 3rd senatorial district to the state senate of Wisconsin. Married. Residence: 1623 So. 21st St., Milwaukee, Wis.
From: "Who's Who in Polish America" by Rev. Francis Bolek, Editor-in-Chief; Harbinger House, New York, 1943