Roy Clippinger was a U.S. Representative

United States House of Representatives

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 from Illinois

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Born in Fairfield, Illinois

Fairfield, Illinois

Fairfield is the county seat of Wayne County, Illinois, United States, the site of Frontier Community College, , , and Airtex; an auto parts manufacturing facility...

, 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

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 to the Seventy-ninth

79th United States Congress

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 Congress to fill the vacancy caused by the death of James V. Heidinger

James V. Heidinger

James Vandaveer Heidinger was a U.S. Representative from Illinois.He was born on a farm near Mount Erie, Illinois, he attended the rural schools, Northern Illinois Normal School, De Kalb, Illinois, and Valparaiso University. He taught in the rural schools of Wayne County, Illinois...

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He was reelected in 1946 to the Eightieth

80th United States Congress

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 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, Illinois

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, where he died on December 24, 1962.
He was interred in I.O.O.F. Cemetery, McLeansboro, Illinois.