Cliff Clevenger (August 20, 1885 – December 13, 1960) was a

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from

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. He served ten terms in

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from 1939 to 1959.

Biography

Cliff Clevenger was born on a ranch near Long Pine, Nebraska. He moved in 1895 with his parents to Lacona, Iowa, where he attended the public schools. He engaged in the mercantile business at

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, 1901–1903 and at

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, 1904-1914. He was also president of the Clevenger Stores,

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, 1915–1926 and manager of the F. W. Uhlman Stores,

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, 1927-1938.

Congress

Clevenger was elected as a Republican to the Seventy-sixth and to the nine succeeding Congresses (January 3, 1939 - January 3, 1959). He was not a candidate for renomination in 1958. He died at his home in

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, in 1960. Clevenger voted against the

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Death

He died on December 13, 1960, and was buried in Oak Hill Cemetery,

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Clevenger, Cliff 1885 births 1960 deaths American segregationists People from Brown County, Nebraska People from Warren County, Iowa People from Bryan, Ohio People from Appleton, Wisconsin People from Tiffin, Ohio Republican Party members of the United States House of Representatives from Ohio 20th-century members of the United States House of Representatives