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Show LEAVES SENATE FOR LEGION Connecticut Lawmaker Resigns to Ao cept Commandership of Department Depart-ment of His State. Clarence W. Seymour, ITarrford, Conn., tendered his resignation as I state senator in the Connecticut lelslu?ure to accept ac-cept the eom-mandersliip eom-mandersliip of the Connecticut department de-partment of the American Legion, to which he was elected last September. Sep-tember. T h e constitution constitu-tion of the I-e-glon makes it 1m- " y possible for a state commander to hold a public office, of-fice, and when Mr. Seymour was called upon to decide between the legislature legisla-ture and the Legion, be placed tle commandership first in importance. Mr. Seymour, a graduate of Yale- In both arts and law, enlisted in the Connecticut Con-necticut cavalry In 1914. He served on the Mexican border in 1910, and later was commissioned a first lieutenant lieu-tenant at the Plattsburg training camp. He served In France as battalion bat-talion adjutant of the One Hundred and Eighteenth field artillery, Thirty-first Thirty-first division. After his return from France he was elected state senator. He was a member mem-ber of the military committee of the 1921 general assembly. |