Robert Henry Clancy (March 14, 1882 – April 23, 1962) was a politician from theU.S. state ofMichigan.
Clancy was born inDetroit,Michigan, where he attended the public schools. He graduated from the literary department of theUniversity of Michigan atAnn Arbor in 1907 and he later studied law there for one year. He worked as a reporter on Detroit newspapers for four years before serving as secretary to CongressmanFrank E. Doremus from 1911 to 1913. He then served as secretary to AssistantUnited States Secretary of CommerceEdwin F. Sweet from 1913 to 1917. DuringWorld War I, he was manager of theWar Trade Board at Detroit, chief inspector of purchases in Michigan for the Medical Corps of the War Department, and recruiting officer of the aviation division in Detroit. He was United States customs appraiser for Michigan from 1917 to 1922. DuringProhibition he was arrested along with the mayor of Detroit and the Wayne County sheriff at the Deutsches Hall while consuming alcohol.
In 1922, Clancy was elected as aDemocrat fromMichigan's 1st congressional district to the68th Congress, serving from March 4, 1923, to March 3, 1925. He was defeated byRepublicanJohn B. Sosnowski in the 1924 election. After leaving Congress, he engaged in the real-estate business until the next election. In the 1926 election, he switched parties and ran as a Republican, defeating the incumbent Sosnowski in the primary, and going on to defeat Democratic candidateWilliam M. Donnelly in the general election for a seat in the70th Congress. In 1928 and 1930, Clancy again defeated Sosnowski in the Republican primary and Donnelly in the general election to be re-elected to the71st and72nd Congresses, serving from March 4, 1927, to March 3, 1933.
In 1932, Clancy was a candidate in the Fourteenth Congressional District in Michigan, due to redistricting after the1930 Census. Clancy lost to DemocratCarl M. Weideman, after which he was engaged in an executive capacity with a manufacturing company until his retirement in 1948. He died in Detroit and is interred there inMount Olivet Cemetery.[1]
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