William F. Clinger, Jr.

William Floyd Clinger Jr. ( born April 4, 1929 in Warren, Warren County, Pennsylvania ) is a former American politician. Between 1979 and 1997 he represented the State of Pennsylvania in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

William Clinger attended the public schools of his native land and from then until 1947, the Hill School in Pottstown. This was followed up in 1951 to study at the Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore. During the Korean War, he served from 1951 in the U.S. Navy. He remained until 1955 in the military. Between 1955 and 1962 he worked for the company New Process Co. in his hometown of Warren. After studying law at the University of Virginia in Charlottesville and his 1965 was admitted to the bar he began to practice in this profession. At the same time he proposed as a member of the Republican Party launched a political career. In the years 1967 and 1968 he was a member of the Constitutional Convention of the State of Pennsylvania; in August 1972 he was a delegate to the Republican National Convention in Miami Beach in part, was nominated to the President Richard Nixon for re-election.

In the congressional elections of 1978, Clinger was the 23rd electoral district of Pennsylvania in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he succeeded the Democrats Joseph S. Ammerman on January 3, 1979. After eight re- election he was able to complete in Congress until January 3, 1997 nine legislative sessions. Since 1993 he represented there as a successor to Richard T. Schulze the fifth district of his state. From 1995 to 1997 he was Chairman of the Committee on Government Reform and Oversight. In 1996 he gave up another candidacy.

Since the end of his time in the U.S. House of Representatives operates William Clinger as a senior fellow for the Study of American Government at Johns Hopkins University.