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Clifford Hope

Clifford R. Hope
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Member of the U.S. House of Representatives
from Kansas's 7th district
In office
March 4, 1927 – January 3, 1943
Preceded by Jasper N. Tincher
Member of the U.S. House of Representatives
from Kansas's 5th district
In office
January 3, 1943 – January 3, 1957
Preceded by John M. Houston
Succeeded by James F. Breeding

Clifford R. Hope (June 9, 1893 – May 16, 1970) was a U.S. Representative from Kansas, and a member of the Republican Party. Born in Birmingham, Iowa, Hope attended public schools and Nebraska Wesleyan University, in Lincoln, Nebraska. He served during the First World War, as a second lieutenant. He served in the Kansas House of Representatives. He was elected to the Seventieth United States Congress in 1927 and served in Congress through 1957.

After leaving office, Hope served as President of Great Plains Wheat Inc. of Garden City, Kansas from 1959 to 1963. He died as a result of a stroke on May 16, 1970.



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