CASE, Clifford Philip, a Representative and a Senator from New Jersey; born in Franklin Park, Somerset
County, N.J., April 16, 1904; attended the public schools of Poughkeepsie, N.Y.; graduated from
Rutgers University, New Brunswick, N.J., in 1925 and from Columbia University Law School, New
York City, in 1928; admitted to the bar in 1928 and commenced practice in New York City;
member of the Rahway (N.J.) Common Council 1938-1942; member, New Jersey house of
assembly 1943-1944; trustee of Rutgers University; elected as a Republican to the Seventy-ninth and
to the four succeeding Congresses, and served from January 3, 1945, until his resignation August 16,
1953; president of The Fund for the Republic 1953-1954; elected as a Republican to the United
States Senate in 1954; reelected in 1960, 1966, and again in 1972 and served from January 3, 1955,
to January 3, 1979; unsuccessful candidate for renomination in 1978; resumed the practice of law;
lecturer at Rutgers Universitys Eagleton Institute of Politics; resided in Rahway, N.J., until his death in
Washington, D.C., on March 5, 1982; interment at New Cemetery, Somerville, N.J.