Representative Clement John Zablocki of Wisconsin served in the U.S. House of Representatives from January 3, 1949, until his death on December 3, 1983. Born in Milwaukee on November 18, 1912, he earned a Ph.B. from Marquette University in 1936. Zablocki taught high school in Milwaukee and served as an organist and choir director from 1932 to 1948. He was a member of the Wisconsin State Senate from 1942 to 1948 and chaired the Democratic State Convention in 1948. Zablocki was a delegate to the Democratic National Conventions in 1952, 1956, 1960, 1964, and 1968. He served as a U.S. delegate to the fourteenth session of the United Nations General Assembly in 1959 and held the rank of lieutenant colonel in the U.S. Air Force Reserve. Zablocki was elected as a Democrat to the Eighty-first and the sixteen succeeding Congresses, serving as chairman of the Committee on International Relations during the Ninety-fifth Congress and as chairman of the Committee on Foreign Affairs during the Ninety-sixth through Ninety-eighth Congresses. He was interred in St. Adalbert's Cemetery in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.