James Vernon McClintic (September 8, 1878 – April 22, 1948) was an American politician and a

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from

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Biography

Born near

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, McClintic was the son of George Vance and Emma Clay Proctor Mc Clintic. He moved with his parents to

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, in 1880 and attended the public schools and Add Ran University (now

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) in

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. He married Emma May Biggs in 1904 and they had two children, Mary Vance and Olive Erle.

Career

McClintic accepted a position with a wholesale dry-goods company in

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in 1901. In 1902, he became a traveling salesman. He moved to Snyder,

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, in 1902, where he opened the Texas Store, a mercantile business. He then homesteaded a farm in Texas County in 1906. After returning to Snyder, McClintic was elected city clerk in 1908. One year later, he served as clerk of

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in 1909. When the southern portion of Kiowa County broke away to form Swanson County, with Snyder as its county seat, he was elected to the

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. He served as Swanson County's representative from January 3, 1911 until the dissolution of the county on June 27 of that year. He served in the

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, McClintic was admitted to the

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in 1928 and licensed to

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in all the courts of Oklahoma. McClintic was elected as a

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to the 64th Congress and to the nine succeeding Congresses and served from March 4, 1915 to January 3, 1935. During the

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, he was chairman of the Committee on Expenditures on Public Buildings. He failed to receive his party's nomination in 1934. From 1935 to 1940, McClintic was the executive assistant to the

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. He then served as an administrative assistant in the District of Columbia Department of Vehicles and Traffic in 1940 and 1941. McClintic once again attempted to secure a Democratic Party nomination to fill a vacancy in the

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, but was again unsuccessful. However, he returned to Washington as special assistant to the

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, serving from 1941 to 1944. As a member of the Readjustment Division of the

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he served in 1944 and 1945. He then resumed the practice of law.

Death

On a train en route to Los Angeles, McClintic died from a heart attack near Chicago, Cook County, Illinois, on April 22, 1948. He is

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at Rose Hill Burial Park, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma.

References

External links

James V. McClintic Collection
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Photograph Collection
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