Clifford R. Hope

Clifford Ragsdale Hope was a United States [House of Representatives|U.S. representative] from Kansas, and a member of the Republican Party. Born in Birmingham, Iowa, Hope attended public schools and Nebraska Wesleyan University, in Lincoln, Nebraska. He served during the First World War, as a second lieutenant. He served in the Kansas House of Representatives. He was elected to the Seventieth [United States Congress] in 1927 and served in Congress through 1957, making him the longest-serving Kansan in the United States House of Representatives.
After leaving office, Hope served as president of Great Plains Wheat Inc. of Garden City, Kansas, from 1959 to 1963. He died as a result of a stroke on May 16, 1970.