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Roy Clippinger (January 13, 1886 – December 24, 1962) was a
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Fairfield, Illinois } Fairfield is a city in and the county seat of Wayne County, Illinois, United States, and the location of Frontier Community College. The population was 4,883 at the 2020 census. History Fairfield is most famous for being the hometown of th ...
, Clippinger attended the public schools. Learned the printer's trade and engaged in the newspaper business. He was publisher and editor 1909–1961. Founder and president of the Board of Greater Weeklies, New York City. He served as president of the Carmi, Illinois, Hospital Association 1945–1948. Manager of the White County, Illinois, Bridge Commission 1941–1961. He engaged in the furniture business 1947–1950. Clippinger was elected as a
Republican Republican can refer to: Political ideology * An advocate of a republic, a type of government that is not a monarchy or dictatorship, and is usually associated with the rule of law. ** Republicanism, the ideology in support of republics or agains ...
to the Seventy-ninth Congress to fill the vacancy caused by the death of James V. Heidinger. He was reelected in 1946 to the Eightieth Congress and served from November 6, 1945, to January 3, 1949. He was not a candidate for renomination in 1948. He resumed his former business pursuits. He was a resident of
Carmi, Illinois Carmi is a city in and the county seat of White County, Illinois, United States, along the Little Wabash River, where the population was 5,240 at the 2010 census. History Carmi post office has been in operation since 1817, and then a WPA oil o ...
, where he died on December 24, 1962. He was interred in I.O.O.F. Cemetery,
McLeansboro, Illinois McLeansboro () is a city in Hamilton County, Illinois, Hamilton County, Illinois, United States. The population was 2,675 at the 2020 United States Census, 2020 census. The estimated population as of 2018 was 2,773. It is the county seat of Hamilto ...
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{{DEFAULTSORT:Clippinger, Roy 1886 births 1962 deaths Republican Party members of the United States House of Representatives from Illinois People from Wayne County, Illinois 20th-century American politicians People from Carmi, Illinois