Clark MacGregor | |
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| Member of theU.S. House of Representatives fromMinnesota's3rd district | |
| In office January 3, 1961 – January 3, 1971 | |
| Preceded by | Roy Wier |
| Succeeded by | Bill Frenzel |
| Personal details | |
| Born | Clark MacGregor (1922-07-12)July 12, 1922 Minneapolis,Minnesota, U.S. |
| Died | February 10, 2003(2003-02-10) (aged 80) Pompano Beach, Florida, U.S. |
| Party | Republican |
| Spouse | Barbara Spicer |
| Education | Dartmouth College (BA) University of Minnesota (JD) |
| Military service | |
| Allegiance |  United States |
| Branch/service | United States Army |
| Years of service | 1942–1945 |
| Rank | Major |
Clark MacGregor (July 12, 1922 – February 10, 2003) was an American politician. A member of theRepublican Party, he served as theU.S. representative fromMinnesota's 3rd congressional district from 1961 to 1971.
After his time in Congress, MacGregor worked as a senior assistant to PresidentRichard Nixon, including as chairman of the president’s successful 1972 re-election campaign.
MacGregor was born inMinneapolis, Minnesota, and graduatedcum laude fromDartmouth College in 1944 and theUniversity of Minnesota Law School in 1946. In 1949, he married Barbara Spicer; they had three daughters. Clark and Barbara were married until his death.[1]
He was elected to theU.S. House of Representatives in 1960, defeating six-term Democratic incumbentRoy Wier, and served in the87th,88th,89th,90th, and91st congresses, January 3, 1961 – January 3, 1971.
In 1963, MacGregor appeared in a satirical revue byDudley Riggs'Brave New Workshop.[2]He was a delegate to the1964 and1968 Republican National Convention from Minnesota. He was an unsuccessful candidate forU.S. Senator from Minnesota in 1970, losing to formerDemocratic Vice PresidentHubert Humphrey. Initially expecting to run against the incumbent senator,Eugene McCarthy, MacGregor later said privately that he would not have entered the race had he known he would be running against Humphrey.[3]
MacGregor voted in favor of theCivil Rights Acts of 1964,[4] and1968,[5] as well as the24th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution and theVoting Rights Act of 1965.[6][7]
MacGregor was Assistant toRichard Nixon for congressional relations in 1970, Counsel to the President on congressional relations (1971–1972), Chairman of theCommittee to Re-elect the President (July to November 1972) followingJohn Mitchell's resignation from the position in theWatergate political scandal. In October 1972, as the reporting ofBob Woodward andCarl Bernstein began to piece together the extent of the spying and sabotage program of the Nixon campaign, MacGregor in a press conference attackedThe Washington Post for allegedly "Using innuendo, third-person hearsay, unsubstantiated charges, anonymous sources, and huge scare headlines ... maliciously ... to give the appearance of a direct connection between the White House and the Watergate -- a charge thePost knows -- and a half dozen investigations have found -- to be false."[8]
After 1973, he left politics. He continued to live inWashington, D.C., worked forUnited Technologies Corporation, and was on the boards of theNational Symphony Orchestra and theWolf Trap Foundation.[9]
During a vacation inPompano Beach, Florida in 2003, MacGregor died from respiratory failure.[10]
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| Preceded by | Republican nominee forU.S. Senator fromMinnesota (Class 1) 1970 | Succeeded by |
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