Melville Clyde Kelly

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Melville Clyde Kelly (August 4, 1883 – April 29, 1935) was a Republican member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Pennsylvania.

M. Clyde Kelly was born in Bloomfield, Ohio. He attended Muskingum College in New Concord, Ohio. He was engaged in newspaper publishing at Braddock, Pennsylvania, in 1903 and established the Braddock Leader in 1904.

In 1907 purchased the Daily News and the Evening Herald and consolidated them into the Daily News-Herald. He was a member of the Pennsylvania State House of Representatives from 1910 to 1913.

Kelly was elected as a Republican to the Sixty-third Congress, but was an unsuccessful candidate in 1914. After his term in Congress, he continued his newspaper work. He was again elected as a Progressive to the Sixty-fifth and reelected as a Republican to the eight succeeding Congresses. He was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1934.

After his time in Congress, he resumed his former business pursuits. He was accidentally shot while cleaning a rifle and died in a hospital at Punxsutawney, Pennsylvania, aged 52; he was interred in Mahoning Union Cemetery, near Marchand, Pennsylvania.

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• Biography at the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress
• The Political Graveyard

Preceded by John Dalzell	Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Pennsylvania's 30th congressional district 1913 - 1915	Succeeded by William H. Coleman
Preceded by William H. Coleman	Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Pennsylvania's 30th congressional district 1917 - 1923	Succeeded by Everett Kent
Preceded by at-large: William J. Burke, Thomas S. Crago, Joseph McLaughlin, Anderson H. Walters	Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Pennsylvania's 33rd congressional district 1923 - 1933	Succeeded by Henry Ellenbogen
Preceded by Adam M. Wyant	Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Pennsylvania's 31st congressional district 1933 - 1935	Succeeded by James L. Quinn