# Mac McLin

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{{Infobox person
| name               = Mac McLin
| other_names        = C.J. McLin
| birth_name         = Clarence Josef McLin
| birth_date         = August 20, 1899
| birth_place        = [Tennessee](/source/Tennessee), U.S.
| death_date         = December 20, 1966 (aged 67)
| death_place        = [Dayton, Ohio](/source/Dayton%2C_Ohio), U.S.
| children           = [C. J. McLin Jr.](/source/C._J._McLin)
| relatives          = [Rhine McLin](/source/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](/source/leadership) and businessman in [Dayton, Ohio](/source/Dayton%2C_Ohio).

== Early life ==
McLin was born in [Tennessee](/source/Tennessee) and also lived in [Chicago](/source/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](/source/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](/source/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](/source/C._J._McLin), served as a [Democratic](/source/United_States_Democratic_Party) member of the Ohio House of Representatives.

His granddaughter, [Rhine McLin](/source/Rhine_McLin), served as a minority leader of the Ohio Senate and was [the mayor](/source/List_of_mayors_of_Dayton%2C_Ohio) of [Dayton](/source/Dayton%2C_Ohio) from 2002 to 2010.

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

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Category:1899 births
Category:1966 deaths
Category:Burials at Woodland Cemetery and Arboretum
Category:People from Dayton, Ohio
Category:Activists from Dayton, Ohio
Category:Civil rights activists from Ohio
Category:20th-century American people

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