Editing Clark MacGregor

{{Short description|American politician (1922–2003)}}
{{Infobox officeholder
|name = Clark MacGregor
|birthname = Clark MacGregor
|image = Clark MacGregor.jpg
|state = [[Minnesota]]
|district = {{ushr|MN|3|3rd}}
|term_start = January 3, 1961 
|term_end = January 3, 1971
|predecessor = [[Roy Wier]]
|successor = [[Bill Frenzel]]
|birth_date = {{birth date|1922|7|12}}
|birth_place = [[Minneapolis]], [[Minnesota]], U.S.
|death_date = {{death date and age|2003|2|10|1922|7|12}}
|death_place = [[Pompano Beach, Florida]], U.S.
|party = [[Republican Party (United States)|Republican]]
|spouse = Barbara Spicer
|education = [[Dartmouth College]] ([[Bachelor of Arts|BA]])<br>[[University of Minnesota]] ([[Juris Doctor|JD]])
|allegiance = {{flag|United States}}
|branch = [[United States Army]]
|serviceyears = 1942–1945
|rank = [[Major (United States)|Major]]
}}
'''Clark MacGregor''' (July 12, 1922 – February 10, 2003) was an American politician and Republican [[U.S. Representative]] from [[Minnesota]]'s 3rd Congressional District for five terms from 1961 to 1971.

After his time in Congress, he worked as a senior assistant to President [[Richard Nixon]], including as chairman of the president’s successful 1972 re-election campaign.

==Life and career==
MacGregor was born in [[Minneapolis, Minnesota]], and graduated cum laude from [[Dartmouth College]] in 1944 and the [[University of Minnesota Law School]] in 1946. In 1949, he married Barbara Spicer; they had three daughters. Clark and Barbara were married until his death.<ref>{{Cite news|last=Bernstein|first=Adam|date=2003-02-13|title=Nixon Campaigner Clark MacGregor Dies at 80|language=en-US|newspaper=Washington Post|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/local/2003/02/13/nixon-campaigner-clark-macgregor-dies-at-80/0887ba4f-5824-4c5a-ad81-53eb33bfb16e/|access-date=2021-08-12|issn=0190-8286}}</ref>

===Congress===
He was elected to the [[U.S. House of Representatives]] in 1960, defeating six-term Democratic incumbent [[Roy Wier]], and served in the [[87th United States Congress|87th]], [[88th United States Congress|88th]], [[89th United States Congress|89th]], [[90th United States Congress|90th]], and [[91st United States Congress|91st congresses]], January 3, 1961 – January 3, 1971.

In 1963, MacGregor appeared in a satirical revue by [[Dudley Riggs]]' [[Brave New Workshop]].<ref>{{Cite news 
  | last = Moses
  | first = George
  | title = Congressman's Barbs Make a Hit
  | newspaper = Eugene Register-Guard
  | pages = 8
  | date = 1963-07-23
  | url = https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=5_5VAAAAIBAJ&sjid=I-MDAAAAIBAJ&pg=6739%2C4476466
  | access-date = 2011-01-12 }}
</ref>
He was a delegate to the [[1964 Republican National Convention|1964]] and [[1968 Republican National Convention]] from Minnesota. He was an unsuccessful candidate for [[United States Senate|U.S. Senator]] from Minnesota in 1970, losing to former [[United States Democratic Party|Democratic]] Vice President [[Hubert Humphrey]]. Initially expecting to run against the incumbent senator, [[Eugene McCarthy]], MacGregor later said privately that he would not have entered the race had he known he would be running against Humphrey.<ref>{{cite book|title=Hubert Humphrey: A Biography|first=Carl|last=Solberg|year=1984|publisher=W. W. Norton and Company|isbn=0-393-01806-7|page=418}}</ref>

MacGregor voted in favor of the [[Civil Rights Act of 1964|Civil Rights Acts of 1964]],<ref>{{Cite web |title=H.R. 7152. PASSAGE. -- House Vote #128 -- Feb 10, 1964 |url=https://www.govtrack.us/congress/votes/88-1964/h128 |access-date=2024-12-04 |website=GovTrack.us |language=en}}</ref>and [[Civil Rights Act of 1968|1968]],<ref>{{Cite web |title=TO PASS H.R. 2516, A BILL TO ESTABLISH PENALTIES FOR … -- House Vote #113 -- Aug 16, 1967 |url=https://www.govtrack.us/congress/votes/90-1967/h113 |access-date=2024-12-04 |website=GovTrack.us |language=en}}</ref> as well as the [[Twenty-fourth Amendment to the United States Constitution|24th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution]] and the [[Voting Rights Act of 1965]].<ref>{{Cite web |title=S.J. RES. 29. CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENT TO BAN THE USE OF … -- House Vote #193 -- Aug 27, 1962 |url=https://www.govtrack.us/congress/votes/87-1962/h193 |access-date=2024-12-04 |website=GovTrack.us |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=TO PASS H.R. 6400, THE 1965 VOTING RIGHTS ACT. -- House Vote #87 -- Jul 9, 1965 |url=https://www.govtrack.us/congress/votes/89-1965/h87 |access-date=2024-12-04 |website=GovTrack.us |language=en}}</ref>

===Nixon White House===
MacGregor was Assistant to [[Richard Nixon]] for congressional relations in 1970, Counsel to the President on congressional relations (1971–1972), Chairman of the [[Committee to Re-elect the President]] (July to November 1972) following [[John N. Mitchell|John Mitchell]]'s resignation from the position in the [[Watergate scandal|Watergate]] political scandal. In October 1972, as the reporting of [[Bob Woodward]] and [[Carl Bernstein]] began to piece together the extent of the spying and sabotage program of the Nixon campaign, MacGregor in a press conference attacked ''[[The Washington Post]]'' for allegedly "Using innuendo, third-person hearsay, unsubstantiated charges, anonymous sources, and huge scare headlines ... maliciously ... to give the appearance of a direct connection between the White House and the Watergate -- a charge the ''Post'' knows -- and a half dozen investigations have found -- to be false."<ref>{{Cite book|last=Perlstein|first=Rick|url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/180755987|title=Nixonland : the rise of a president and the fracturing of America|date=2008|isbn=978-0-7432-4302-5|edition=1st Scribner hardcover|location=New York|pages=729–730|oclc=180755987}}</ref>

===Later career and death===
After 1973, he left politics. He continued to live in [[Washington, D.C.]], worked for [[United Technologies Corporation]], and was on the boards of the [[National Symphony Orchestra]] and the [[Wolf Trap National Park for the Performing Arts|Wolf Trap Foundation]].<ref>{{Cite news 
  | last = Saxon
  | first = Wolfgang
  | title = Clark MacGregor, 80, Leader Of Nixon Campaign in 1972
  | newspaper = New York Times
  | date = 2003-02-14
  | url = https://www.nytimes.com/2003/02/14/us/clark-macgregor-80-leader-of-nixon-campaign-in-1972.html
  | access-date = 2011-02-12}}
</ref>

During a vacation in [[Pompano Beach, Florida]] in 2003, MacGregor died from respiratory failure.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.mrt.com/news/article/Former-Minn-Rep-Clark-MacGregor-Dies-7887086.php|title=Former Minn. Rep. Clark MacGregor Dies |newspaper=Midland Reporter-Telegram |date=12 February 2003 }}</ref>

==References==
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==External links==
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