James Michael Clampitt (born February 17, 1955) is an American politician. He was elected to the North Carolina House of Representatives in 2016 and 2020. Before his election in 2016, he ran unsuccessfully for office for Swain County Board of Commissioners in both 2006 and 2010, and the North Carolina House of Representatives in 2012 and 2014. A

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, he serves the 119th district, covering portions of Haywood, Jackson, and Swain counties. He was a captain in the Charlotte Fire Department from 1977 to 2004. He is a resident of

Bryson City Bryson City is a town in Swain County, North Carolina in the United States. The population was 1558 as of the 2020 Census. It is the county seat of Swain County. Located in what was historically the land of the Cherokee, Bryson City was founded a ...

Honors

In 2018, Clampitt received a 90% rating on the NC Values Coalition Legislative Scorecard. During the 2018 general assembly session, Clampitt was one of the only Republican members of the House of Representatives to cosponsor Democratic Governor

Roy Cooper Roy Asberry Cooper III (born June 13, 1957) is an American attorney and politician, serving as the 75th governor of North Carolina since 2017. A member of the Democratic Party, he served as the 49th attorney general of North Carolina from 20 ...

's Budget.

Involvement with the Oath Keepers

In late September 2021, it was revealed that Clampitt's name was among the some 38,000 people whose names appear on a membership roster of the

Oath Keepers Oath Keepers is an American far-right anti-government militia whose leaders have been convicted of violently opposing the government of the United States, including the transfer of Presidential power as prescribed by the US Constitution. ...

; a far-right anti-government militia, following a hack of the group's internal data. Records show that Clampitt has been on the Oath Keepers' roster since at least 2014. Clampitt is also a registered member of the

Sons of Confederate Veterans The Sons of Confederate Veterans (SCV) is an American neo-Confederate nonprofit organization of male descendants of Confederate soldiers that commemorates these ancestors, funds and dedicates monuments to them, and promotes the pseudohis ...

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, - {{DEFAULTSORT:Clampitt, Mike Living people People from Swain County, North Carolina People from Bryson City, North Carolina Republican Party members of the North Carolina House of Representatives 1955 births 21st-century American politicians Members of Sons of Confederate Veterans