About Clifford Ragsdale Hope
Lived 1893 – 1970 (aged 76). Clifford Ragsdale Hope was an American politician and lawyer.
Clifford Ragsdale 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, making him the longest-serving Kansan in the United States House of Representatives.
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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American politician (1893-1970)
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Clifford Ragsdale Hope was born on 9 June 1893 in Birmingham.
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Clifford Ragsdale Hope died on 16 May 1970 in Garden City.
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