Clarence Wyly Turner (October 22, 1866 –March 23, 1939) was an American politician who served in the United States Congress as a member of the United States House of Representatives from Tennessee.
Biography
Turner was born on October 22, 1866, on a farm near Clydeton, in Humphreys County, Tennessee, the son of Charles N. and Hettie B. Turner. He attended the public schools, a preparatory school in Edgewood in Dickson County, Tennessee, and National Normal Institute in Lebanon, Ohio. He graduated from the law department of Northern Indiana Normal School at Valparaiso, Indiana, in 1904. He was admitted to the bar the same year and commenced practice at Waverly, Tennessee, in Humphreys County. He was also the editor of the Waverly Sentinel.
Career
The chairman of the Democratic committee of Humphreys County for fifteen years, Turner was also a member of the Tennessee Senate in 1900, 1901, and from 1909 to 1912. He was a delegate to the Democratic National Committee in 1920. He was elected mayor of Waverly, Tennessee in 1920, and also worked as a city attorney.
Turner returned to Waverly, Tennessee and engaged in banking and agricultural pursuits. He served as the county judge of Humphreys County from 1924 to 1933. He was elected to the Seventy-third and to the three succeeding Congresses by Tennessee's 6th congressional district. He served from March 4, 1933, until his death in Washington, D.C., on March 23, 1939.[3]
Death
After his death in Washington, D.C., on March 23, 1939, Turner's remains were transported and he is interred in Marable Cemetery in Waverly, Tennessee.[4]
