{{Short description|American politician}} {{Use mdy dates|date=March 2023}} {{Use American English|date=March 2023}} {{Infobox officeholder | name = John McClaughry | image = File:John McClaughry.png | alt = McClaughry in 2015 | state_senate1 = Vermont | district1 = Caledonia | term_start1 = 1989 | term_end1 = 1993 | alongside1 = Joseph M. Sherman | predecessor1 = Gerald Morse | successor1 = Julius D. Canns | state_house2 = Vermont | district2 = 26th | term_start2 = 1969 | term_end2 = 1973 | alongside2 = Harry U. Lawrence | predecessor2 = W. Arthur Simpson | successor2 = Cola Hudson | birth_name = | birth_date = | birth_place = | death_date = | death_place = | party = Republican | other_party = | spouse = | children = | education = Miami University (AB)<br>Columbia University (MA)<br>University of California, Berkeley (MA) | signature = }} '''John McClaughry''' (born September 15, 1937) is an American author and politician. He served in the Vermont House of Representatives from 1969 to 1972 and the Vermont State Senate from 1989 to 1992.<ref name="auto">{{cite web|url=https://vtdigger.org/2013/11/24/thing-two-might-know-john-mcclaughry/|title=In This State: A thing or two you might not know about John McClaughry|first=Dirk Van|last=Susteren|date=November 24, 2013|website=VTDigger}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.sevendaysvt.com/vermont/riding-the-rails-with-john-mcclaughry-conservative-thought-leader-politico-hobo/Content?oid=16882592|title=Riding the Rails With John McClaughry: Conservative Thought Leader, Politico, Hobo|first=Dan|last=Bolles|website=Seven Days}}</ref>
==Early life and education== McClaughry grew up in Paris, Illinois.<ref name="auto3">{{Cite web|url=https://www.sevendaysvt.com/vermont/riding-the-rails-with-john-mcclaughry-conservative-thought-leader-politico-hobo/Content?oid=16882592|title=Riding the Rails With John McClaughry: Conservative Thought Leader, Politico, Hobo|website=Seven Days}}</ref> In 1958, he earned an AB in physics and mathematics from Miami University. In 1960, he earned an MS in nuclear engineering from Columbia University. In 1963, he earned a MA in political science from University of California, Berkeley.<ref name="policyexpertscv">{{cite web|url=http://www.policyexperts.org/cv/McClaughryJohn.doc|title=McClaughry, John. CV|website=policyexperts.org|access-date=February 13, 2023|archive-date=March 6, 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230306142113/http://www.policyexperts.org/cv/McClaughryJohn.doc|url-status=dead}}</ref> From 1962 to 1965, McClaughry spent time living as a hobo and hopped trains, traveling in boxcars about 5,000 miles across 19 states.<ref name="auto3"/>
==Career== McClaughry moved to Washington, D.C., where he worked at the moderate Republican magazine ''Advance''.<ref name="auto2">{{Cite web|url=https://www.sevendaysvt.com/vermont/diminishing-democracy-at-kirby-town-meeting-the-18-percent-rule/Content?oid=4488848|title=Diminishing Democracy? At Kirby Town Meeting, the 18 Percent Rule|website=Seven Days}}</ref> In 1968, John F. Osborne in ''The New Republic'' called McClaughry "a remarkable white Republican activist" who was working "to promote black opportunity and black control of black communities."<ref name="auto1">{{cite web|url=https://www.theamericanconservative.com/articles/vermonts-republican-radical/|title=Vermont's Republican Radical|website=The American Conservative|date=February 14, 2014 }}</ref> He moved to Vermont permanently in 1970.<ref name="auto2"/> In 1968, McClaughry was elected to a seat in the Vermont House of Representatives. He served from 1969 through 1973.<ref name="auto"/>
McClaughry served as a senior policy advisor in Ronald Reagan's presidential campaign of 1980. Afterwards, he served in the White House Office of Policy Development until March 1982.<ref name="vtdigger1">{{cite news|last1=Van Susteren|first1=Dirk|title=In This State: A thing or two you might not know about John McClaughry|url=http://vtdigger.org/2013/11/24/thing-two-might-know-john-mcclaughry/|access-date=March 9, 2015|agency=Vermont Journalism Trust|publisher=VTDigger.org|date=November 24, 2013}}</ref> McClaughry ran for senate in the 1982 United States Senate election in Vermont. He placed third in the Republican primary.<ref>{{cite news|last=Broder |first=David S.|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/politics/1982/08/27/gop-primary-in-vermont-to-provide-early-test-on-powers-of-incumbency/552b737a-05d4-415c-8384-c64be86b617a/ |title=GOP Primary in Vermont to Provide Early Test on Powers of Incumbency |newspaper=The Washington Post|date=August 27, 1982|access-date=February 13, 2023}}</ref> In 1989, McClaughry was elected to the Vermont State Senate where he served until 1992.<ref name="auto"/>
In 1992, he was the Republican candidate for Governor of Vermont, ultimately losing to incumbent Democrat Howard Dean.<ref name="vtdigger1"/> McClaughry had been the Town meeting day moderator in Kirby, Vermont, since 1967.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.wamc.org/new-england-news/2017-03-07/kirby-town-meeting-moderator-discusses-importance-of-town-meeting-day|title=Kirby Town Meeting Moderator Discusses Importance Of Town Meeting Day|date=March 7, 2017|website=WAMC}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.vpr.org/vpr-news/2021-02-22/exercise-in-social-solidarity-on-town-meeting-day-in-kirby-vt|title='Exercise In Social Solidarity': On Town Meeting Day In Kirby, Vt.|date=February 22, 2021|website=Vermont Public Radio}}</ref><ref name="auto1"/> In 1993, McClaughry founded the Ethan Allen Institute. He served as president from 1993 to 2009, and as acting president in 2010, then vice president to retirement in 2023.<ref>{{cite web |title=Staff and Directors |url=http://www.ethanallen.org/html/staff___directors.html |publisher=Ethan Allen Institute |accessdate=March 9, 2015 |archive-date=November 8, 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161108051753/http://www.ethanallen.org/html/staff___directors.html |url-status=dead }}</ref>
==Books== *''Expanded Ownership'' (Sabre Foundation, 1972) *with Frank M. Bryan, ''The Vermont Papers: Recreating Democracy on a Human Scale'' (Chelsea Green, 1989) *''A Better Path - From Welfare to Work'' (Ethan Allen Institute, 1993)<ref name="policyexpertscv"/> *''Promoting Civil Society Among the Heathen'', Institute for Liberty and Community, 2013.
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==External links== *[https://vermonthistory.org/documents/findaid/McClaughryERAfile.pdf Vermont History] *[https://www.frontporchrepublic.com/author/john-mcclaughry/ John McClaughry, Author at Front Porch Republic]
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