American Federation of Labor, but the effect was to quadruple membership in the Brotherhood. Black workers could now join the union without fear of losing their jobs. Dill ran for governor in 1940 but was narrowly defeated by Republican Arthur B. Langlie. His last attempt at elective office was for the open seat in Congress from Spokane's fifth district in 1942, but was easily defeated by Walt Horan, the first Republican to win that district in twenty years. Horan had lost to Charles Leavy by eleven points in the previous race in 1940. Dill then served as a member of the Columbia Basin Commission from 1945 to 1948, and as a special assistant to the U.S. Attorney General from 1946 to 1953. In between all of these jobs, he usually practiced law. He died in 1978 in Spokane at the age of 93, the last living U.S. senator elected before the Great Depression. Personal After he left the Senate, Dill sought a divorce from his wife in 1936, the feminist suffragist and author Rosalie Gardiner Jones of New York. Dill claimed that Jones told his friends that he was "a political coward" for not seeking re-election in 1934, and that she buried dogs and garbage in the backyard. Separated while he was still in office, the well-publicized divorce proceedings began in late June 1936 in Spokane. The court found in his favor: he kept the house, she got the furniture. Dill met home economics educator Mabel Aileen Dickson (1905–1969) in November 1936 in Washington, DC, and they were married in May 1939. Born in Crystal, North Dakota, she was raised in Canada; Dickson graduated from the University of Alberta in Edmonton and earned a master's degree at Washington State College in Pullman. They were married for thirty years, until her death from a heart ailment. Their home, Cliff Aerie, built in 1941 at 708 W. Cliff Drive, is a Spokane landmark. Electoral history 1914 Congress 5 C C Dill (D), 24,410 Harry Rosenhaupt (R), 20,063 Thomas Corkery (Prog), 15,509 J O Harkness (S), 4,502 F H Flanders (Proh), 2,270 1916 Congress 5 C C Dill (D), 37,479 Thomas Corkery (R), 32,298 John M Powers (S), 2,952 1918 Congress 5 Stanley Webster (R), 22426 C C Dill (D), 20,061 Peter Harrison (S), 473 1922 US Senate C C Clarence Dill (D), 130,375 Miles Poindexter (R), 126,556 James Duncan (FL), 35,352 David