Background
Clouse, Wynne F. was born on August 29, 1883 in Goffton, Tennessee, United States. Son of Thomas Jefferson and Eunetta Clouse.
United States representative politician
Clouse, Wynne F. was born on August 29, 1883 in Goffton, Tennessee, United States. Son of Thomas Jefferson and Eunetta Clouse.
He attended the public schools and was graduated from Cleveland Hill Academy, Pleasant Hill, Tennessee, in 1898.
And from Cumberland University, Lebanon, Tennessee, in 1911, where studied law at Cumberland School of Law. He was admitted to the bar in 1911 and commenced practice in Cookeville, Tennessee, in 1912. He served as delegate to the Republican National Conventions in 1916 and 1924.
Clouse was elected as a Republican to the Sixty-seventh Congress (March 4, 1921-March 3, 1923).
An unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1922 to the Sixty-eighth Congress, he resumed the practice of law in the city of Nashville. Appointed receiver of the Tennessee Central Railroad Company, Clouse served as special assistant to the Attorney General of the United States in 1924.
He was appointed Referee in Bankruptcy for the Nashville division of the middle district of Tennessee and served until his resignation in January 1940. Clouse died in Franklin, Tennessee, February 19, 1944 (age 60 years, 174 days).
He is interred at Mount Hope Cemetery.
Member 67th Congress (1921-1923), 4th Tennessee District.
Married Linnie Alice Dowell, December 24, 1907.