Clinton Dotson McKinnon (February 5, 1906–December 29, 2001) is a former American Democratic politician and journalist from San Diego. February 5 is the 36th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar. ... 1906 (MCMVI) was a common year starting on Monday (see link for calendar). ... December 29 is the 363rd day of the year (364th in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, with 2 days remaining. ... 2001: A Space Odyssey. ... The Democratic Party is one of the two major political parties in the United States. ... A politician is an individual involved in politics to the extent of holding or running for public office. ... This article does not cite its references or sources. ... Nickname: Americas Finest City Motto: Official website: http://www. ...

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. Nickname: Big D Motto: Official website: www. ... The Palo Alto High School sign Palo Alto Senior High School is the older of the two high schools in Palo Alto, California, United States. ... Nickname: Motto: Official website: http://www. ... The Leland Stanford Junior University, commonly known as Stanford University (or simply Stanford), is a privately-funded American university in Stanford, California. ... The University of Geneva (Université de Genève) is one of the oldest universities in the world. ... The University of Redlands is a private liberal arts and sciences university located in Redlands, California. ...

McKinnon and his wife Lucille had two sons, Dan and 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 was the only one to start a daily newspaper during World War II, the San Diego Daily Journal in 1944, by stringing together several throwaways. The Journal competited with the much-larger San Diego Tribune. This was possible because the Democratic 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: Combatants Allies: • Soviet Union, • UK & Commonwealth, • USA, • France/Free France, • China, • Poland, • ...and others Axis: • Germany, • Japan, • Italy, • ...and others Commanders Strength Casualties Full list Full list World War II, also known as the Second World War, was a large scale military conflict that took place between 1939 and 1945. ... The San Diego Union-Tribune is a daily newspaper published in San Diego, California by the Copley Press. ... Franklin Delano Roosevelt (January 30, 1882–April 12, 1945), often referred to as FDR, was the 32nd (1933–1945) President of the United States. ... The Republican Party, often called the GOP (for Grand Old Party, although one early citation described it as the Gallant Old Party) [1], is one of the two major political parties in the United States. ... Lionel Van Deerlin is a former United States Representative from California. ...

He was one of the guys—very different from your standard publisher. At the company picnics, he would be pitching softballs. He would come through the newsroom and he would know the names of your kids and which ones had been sick.

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

Time magazine described McKinnon as "a jockey-sized little fireball with unruly black hair and bounding energy".

McKinnon was first elected to the House of Representatives in 1948, defeating Republican incumbent Charles K. Fletcher, founder of Home Federal Savings and Loan. During the campaign McKinnon hogged the stage for 15 minutes keeping President Truman from speaking to the crowd waiting for him. Later in Washington, McKinnon apologized to Truman, and Truman glared back at McKinnon, then said :Well, you got elected, didn't you? That's the only thing that matters". The chamber of the United States House of Representatives is located in the south wing of the Capitol building, in Washington, D.C.. This photograph shows a rare glimpse of the four vote tallying boards (the blackish squares across the top), which display each members name and vote as... For the victim of Mt. ...

McKinnon served until 1953. In Congress he fought for water projects for San Diego. Gordon Luce, then the California Republican Party Chairman, said that he was a bright and hard-working leader that even political opponents respected. In 1952, instead of running for reelection, he ran for the Democratic nomination for Senator against better-known Senator Bill Knowland and lost. Since the Congressional districts were redrawn in 1952, McKinnon was the last Representative to serve all of San Diego County. McKinnon was a delegate to Democratic National Conventions in 1952 and 1956. Seal of the Senate The United States Senate is one of the two chambers of the Congress of the United States, the other being the House of Representatives. ... William Fife Knowland (June 26, 1908 – February 23, 1974) was a U.S. politician and newpaperman. ... San Diego County is a county located on the Pacific Ocean in the far southwest of California, along the border with Mexico. ...

McKinnon would rather be known as a journalist than a politician. His other ventures included the La Jolla Light, Coronado Journal, and radio station KSDJ (now KCBQ). 1170 KCBQ, a former country music powerhouse, is owned by Salem Communications and offers conservative talk. ...

McKinnon died 2001 in La Jolla, California. One of the beaches at La Jolla Cove La Jolla, California, is a seaside resort community of 24,440 within the City of San Diego. ...

See also

• Bowman-Lamb, Molly. Clinton McKinnon and The New Voice for San Diego: San Diego Journal, History thesis, University of San Diego, 1996.
• "Member of Congress, newspaper owner dies. He was last representative of entire county of San Diego", The San Diego Union-Tribune, December 30, 2001, by Steve La Rue. Obituary includes portrait.
• "Out of the Valley", November 2, 1942, and "PM for Post Mortem", March 22, 1948, Time magazine

External links

• Bioguide (U.S. Congress)
• "Chapter 4: The City—the End of One Civic Dream", History of San Diego (1977) by Richard Pourade. Describes Journal during the war.

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