James Vernon McClintic | |
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| Member of theU.S. House of Representatives fromOklahoma's7th district | |
| In office March 4, 1915 – January 3, 1935 | |
| Preceded by | District created |
| Succeeded by | Sam C. Massingale |
| Member of theOklahoma Senate | |
| In office 1913-1914 | |
| Member of theOklahoma House of Representatives | |
| In office 1911 | |
| Personal details | |
| Born | September 8, 1878 (1878-09-08) Bremond, Texas, US |
| Died | April 22, 1948 (1948-04-23) (aged 69) |
| Political party | Democratic |
| Spouse | Emma May Biggs McClintic |
| Children | 2 |
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James Vernon McClintic (September 8, 1878 – April 22, 1948) was an American politician and aU.S. Representative fromOklahoma.
Born nearBremond, Texas, McClintic was the son of George Vance and Emma Clay Proctor Mc Clintic. He moved with his parents toGroesbeck, Texas, in 1880 and attended the public schools and Add Ran University (nowTexas Christian University) inFort Worth. He married Emma May Biggs in 1904 and they had two children, Mary Vance and Olive Erle.[1]
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McClintic accepted a position with a wholesale dry-goods company inSt. Louis, Missouri in 1901. In 1902, he became a traveling salesman. He moved toSnyder,Oklahoma Territory, in 1902, where he opened the Texas Store, a mercantile business. He then homesteaded a farm inTexas County in 1906.
After returning to Snyder, McClintic was elected city clerk in 1908. One year later, he served as clerk ofKiowa County, Oklahoma in 1909. When the southern portion of Kiowa County broke away to formSwanson County, with Snyder as its county seat, he was elected to theOklahoma House of Representatives. 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 theOklahoma Senate in 1913 and 1914.
Having studied law atGeorgetown University,Washington, D.C., McClintic was admitted to thebar in 1928 and licensed topractice in all the courts of Oklahoma.[2]
McClintic was elected as aDemocrat to the64th Congress and to the nine succeeding Congresses and served from March 4, 1915 to January 3, 1935.[3] During the65th Congress, 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 theGovernor of Oklahoma. 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 the67th Congress, but was again unsuccessful. However, he returned to Washington as special assistant to theSecretary of the Interior, serving from 1941 to 1944. As a member of the Readjustment Division of theWar Department he served in 1944 and 1945. He then resumed the practice of law.
On a train en route to Los Angeles, McClintic died from a heart attack near Chicago, Cook County, Illinois, on April 22, 1948. He isinterred at Rose Hill Burial Park, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma.[4]
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| Preceded by District created | Member of the U.S. House of Representatives fromOklahoma's 7th congressional district 1915-1935 | Succeeded by |
