Clarence Evans KILBURN, Congress, NY (1893-1975)

KILBURN Clarence Evans , a Representative from New York; born in Malone, Franklin County, N.Y., April 13, 1893; attended the public schools and was graduated from Cornell University, Ithaca, N.Y., in 1916; during the First World War served as a captain in the Twenty-sixth Infantry, First Division, in 1917 and 1918; engaged in banking; became president of the People's Trust Co. of Malone in 1930; elected as a Republican to the Seventy-sixth Congress by special election, February 13, 1940, to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Wallace E. Pierce; reelected to the twelve succeeding Congresses and served from February 13, 1940, to January 3, 1965; was not a candidate for renomination in 1964 to the Eighty-ninth Congress; was a director of Marine Midland Trust Co. of Northern New York; resided in Malone, N.Y., where he died May 20, 1975; remains were cremated and ashes interred in Morningside Cemetery.

Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1771-Present