Colonel William A. Phillips

Clifford Ragsdale Hope (June 9, 1893 – May 16, 1970) was a 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.[1]

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U.S. House of Representatives
Preceded by Member of the U.S. House of Representatives
from Kansas's 7th congressional district

1927 – 1943
District abolished
Preceded by Member of the U.S. House of Representatives
from Kansas's 5th congressional district

1943 – 1957
Succeeded by
Political offices
Preceded by Chairman of the House Agriculture Committee
1947 – 1949
Succeeded by
Preceded by Chairman of the House Agriculture Committee
1953 – 1955
Succeeded by