Clinton D. McKinnon

Clinton Dotson McKinnon (February 5, 1906 – December 29, 2001) was an American Democratic politician and journalist from San Diego.

McKinnon was born 1906 in Dallas, Texas to Dr. John and Tennie McKinnon. He was 12 and the only child when his father died and his mother, a nurse, raised him. He graduated from Palo Alto High School, Palo Alto, California. McKinnon attended Stanford University in 1924, attended the University of Geneva in 1930, and received a BA from University of Redlands in 1930.

McKinnon and his wife Lucille had two sons, Clinton Daniel (Dan) and Michael Dean (Mike), and a daughter Connie.

McKinnon was a journalist and owned newspapers in Texas and California. He started local throwaway newspapers and sold ads to local merchants.

He organized the only daily newspaper to begin during World War II, the San Diego Daily Journal in 1944 by stringing together several throwaways. The Journal competed with the much larger The San Diego Union-Tribune. It was possible because the Franklin Roosevelt administration allocated newsprint, then under ration, to the Journal to compete with the Republican Tribune. Other Journal alumni included Tribune editor and columnist Neil Morgan and Congressman Lionel Van Deerlin. Van Deerlin recalled:

McKinnon sold the paper in 1947, before running for Congress, and it was eventually absorbed into the Tribune.

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