{{Infobox person | name = Mac McLin | other_names = C.J. McLin | birth_name = Clarence Josef McLin | birth_date = August 20, 1899 | birth_place = Tennessee, U.S. | death_date = December 20, 1966 (aged 67) | death_place = Dayton, Ohio, U.S. | children = C. J. McLin Jr. | relatives = Rhine McLin (grand-daughter)<br>Candace Smith (grand-daughter) }}

'''Clarence Josef McLin Sr.''' (August 20, 1899 &ndash; December 20, 1966) was an American civic leader and businessman in Dayton, Ohio.

== Early life == McLin was born in Tennessee and also lived in Chicago.<ref>{{Cite web|last=Rickey|first=Lisa|date=2019-02-26|title=McLin Family Photos|url=https://www.libraries.wright.edu/community/outofthebox/2019/02/26/mclin-family-photos/|access-date=2021-11-11|website=Out of the Box|language=en-US}}</ref>

== Career == McLin founded the McLin Funeral Home in 1932. He served as the eighth president of the Dayton Branch of the NAACP from 1937 to 1938.<ref>{{Cite book|last=Perry|first=Ravi K.|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=KaL8AQAAQBAJ&dq=Mac+McLin&pg=PA36|title=Black Mayors, White Majorities: The Balancing Act of Racial Politics|date=2014-01-01|publisher=U of Nebraska Press|isbn=978-0-8032-4946-2|language=en}}</ref> McLin also founded the Democratic Voters League and ran unsuccessfully for the Dayton City Commission.<ref>{{Cite web|last=Robinson|first=Amelia|title=A Timeline: Black History in the Miami Valley 1798 to 2001|url=https://www.daytondailynews.com/news/timeline-black-history-the-miami-valley-1798-2001/HrbkmUPPZChk0hKo9er94L/|date=February 22, 2013|access-date=November 11, 2021|website=Dayton Daily News|language=English|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170214024650/https://www.daytondailynews.com/news/timeline-black-history-the-miami-valley-1798-2001/HrbkmUPPZChk0hKo9er94L/|archive-date=February 14, 2017|url-status=live}}</ref>

== Personal life == He and his wife Rubie were married on April 28, 1920. They moved to Dayton, Ohio around 1931. McLin's son, C. J. McLin, served as a Democratic member of the Ohio House of Representatives.

His granddaughter, Rhine McLin, served as a minority leader of the Ohio Senate and was the mayor of Dayton from 2002 to 2010.

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==External links== *{{findagrave|19593863}}

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