__NOTOC__ John Clinton Porter (April 4, 1871 – May 27, 1959) was a U.S.

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'' wrote that he represented a "unique mixture of reform politics and xenophobic Protestant populism

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took him quite literally from the junk yard to City Hall." Porter was a member of the

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during its popular resurgence in the early 1920s.

Biography

He was born on April 4, 1871, in

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to Reverend Josephus Clinton Porter and Mathilda Catherine Gardner. He served as the 33rd

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between 1929 and 1933 when he replaced George Edward Cryer. He survived a

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in 1932. He ran for re-election twice more but was defeated in 1933 by

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and in 1941 by

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. He died of a heart and lung condition in

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on May 27, 1959. He was buried at Forest Lawn Memorial Park in Hollywood Hills.

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