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Early Life
Clinger was born in Warren, Pennsylvania. He attended the public schools there and graduated from The Hill School, Pottstown, Pennsylvania[1] in 1947. He received a B.A. from The Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, Maryland in 1951, and an LL.B. from the University of Virginia in Charlottesville, Virginia in 1965. Clinger served in the United States Navy as a lieutenant from 1951 to 1955.Clinger was associated with the New Process Company of Warren, Pennsylvania from 1955 to 1962, was admitted to the Pennsylvania bar in 1965, and was a lawyer in private practice. He was a delegate to the Pennsylvania state constitutional convention, 1967 to 1968, and the Republican National Convention in 1972.

U.S. House of Representatives
Defeating incumbent Representative Joseph S. Ammerman, Clinger was elected as a Republican to the 96th and to the eight succeeding Congresses (January 3, 1979 – January 3, 1997). While in the House of Representatives, he was chairman of the United States House Committee on Government Reform and Oversight[2] in the 104th Congress, which was quite active in investigating the Travelgate and Filegate matters.[3][4] With Senator William Cohen, Clinger co-authored the Information Technology Management Reform Act, also known as the Clinger-Cohen Act. He was not a candidate for re-election to the 105th Congress in 1996.

Subsequent Career
After retiring from Congress, Clinger was employed as as a senior fellow at the Johns Hopkins University Center for the Study of American Government[1] and remains on the faculty today{citation here}. Clinger is also a member of the ReFormers Caucus of Issue One.[5]

In October 2016, Clinger was one of thirty Republican ex-lawmakers to sign a public letter condemning Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump.[3][4]