John McClaughry is an American author and politician. He served in the

Vermont House of Representatives The Vermont House of Representatives is the lower house of the Vermont General Assembly, the state legislature of the U.S. state of Vermont. The House comprises 150 members, with each member representing around 4,100 citizens. Representatives ar ...

from 1969 to 1972 and the

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from 1989 to 1992.

Early life and education

McClaughry grew up in Paris, Illinois. In 1958, he earned an AB in physics and mathematics from Miami University. In 1960, he earned an MS in nuclear engineering from Columbia University. In 1963, he earned a MA in political science from University of California, Berkeley. From 1962 to 1965, McClaughry spent time living as a

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and hopped trains, traveling in boxcars about 5,000 miles across 19 states.

Career

McClaughry moved to Washington, D.C., where he worked at the

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magazine ''Advance''. In 1968, John F. Osborne in '' The New Republic'' called McClaughry "a remarkable white Republican activist" who was working "to promote black opportunity and black control of black communities." He moved to Vermont permanently in 1970. In 1969, McClaughry was elected to a seat in the

. He served until 1972. McClaughry served as a senior policy advisor in Ronald Reagan's presidential campaign of 1980. Afterwards, he served in the White House Office of Policy Development until March 1982. McClaughry ran for senate in the 1982 United States Senate election in Vermont. He placed third in the Republican primary. In 1989, McClaughry was elected to the

where he served until 1992. In 1992, he was the Republican candidate for Governor of Vermont, ultimately losing to incumbent Democrat Howard Dean. McClaughry had been the Town meeting day moderator in Kirby, Vermont, since 1967. In 1993, McClaughry founded the Ethan Allen Institute. He served as president from 1993 to 2009, and as acting president in 2010. Currently he is vice president.

Books

*''Expanded Ownership'' (Sabre Foundation, 1972) *with

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, ''The Vermont Papers: Recreating Democracy on a Human Scale'' (Chelsea Green, 1989) *''A Better Path - From Welfare to Work'' (Ethan Allen Institute, 1993) *''Promoting Civil Society Among the Heathen''

References

External links

Vermont HistoryJohn McClaughry, Author at Front Porch Republic
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