Rep. Robert McClory R-Ill., holds a scale with both the linear system and the metric system prior to showing off the sacle to members of a House Science and Astronautics subcommittee. The subcommittee is hearing testimony regarding a conversion to the metric system.Robert McClory (January 31, 1908 – July 24, 1988) was a U.S. Representative from Illinois.Born in Riverside, Illinois, McClory attended the public schools, L'Institut Sillig, Vevey, Switzerland from 1925 to 1926, and Dartmouth College in Hanover, New Hampshire from 1926 to 1928. He graduated from Chicago-Kent College of Law in 1932. He was admitted to the bar in 1932 and thereafter engaged in the practice of law in state and federal courts in Cook and Lake counties. He served in the United States Marine Corps Reserve 1933–1937.
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