[2] An unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1922 to the Sixty-eighth Congress, he resumed the practice of law in the city of Nashville.

Appointed receiver of the Tennessee Central Railroad Company, Clouse served as special assistant to the Attorney General of the United States in 1924.

He was appointed Referee in Bankruptcy for the Nashville division of the middle district of Tennessee and served until his resignation in January 1940.

[3] Clouse died in Franklin, Tennessee, February 19, 1944 (age 60 years, 174 days).

[4] This article incorporates public domain material from the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress