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{{Short description|American politician}}
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{{Infobox officeholder
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| name = Clive L. DuVal II
| image = Senator Duval 1988.jpg
| party = [[Republican Party (United States)|Republican]] (Until 1964) [[Democratic Party (United States)|Democrat]] (1964–2002)
| state_senate
| district = [[Virginia's 32nd Senate district|32nd]]
| term_start
| term_end
| predecessor
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| office1 = Member of the [[Virginia House of Delegates]] for [[Fairfax County, Virginia|Fairfax]] and [[Falls Church, Virginia|Falls Church]]
| term_start1 = January 12, 1966
| term_end1 = January 12, 1972
| preceded1 = [[John Lafayette Scott|John L. Scott]]
| succeeded1 = [[Wyatt Durrette]]
| alma_mater = [[Yale University]] ([[Bachelor of Arts|BA]], [[Bachelor of Laws|LLB]])
| birthname = Clive Livingston Du Val II
| birth_date = {{Birth date|1912|6|20}}
| birth_place = {{nowrap|[[Manhattan|New York]], [[New York (state)|New York]], [[United States|U.S.]]}}
| death_date = {{death date and age|2002|2|25|1912|6|20}}
| death_place = [[McLean, Virginia|McLean]], [[Virginia]], U.S.
| spouse = Susan Bontecou
| children =
| allegiance = {{flag|United States|1912}}
| serviceyears = 1942–1946
| branch = [[United States Navy]]
| rank = [[Lieutenant commander (United States)|Lieutenant commander]]
| battles = [[World War II]]
}}
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==Early and family life==
Du Val was born in New York City on June 20, 1912, the son of a Wall Street broker. He attended [[Groton School]] and [[Yale University]], [[Phi Beta Kappa]] [[summa cum laude]] in 1935. He then attended [[Yale Law School]], edited the [[Yale Law Journal]], and received his law degree in 1938.
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Du Val returned to private practice in 1959, with the Washington D.C. office of the New York law firm [[Milbank, Tweed, Hadley & McCloy]], where he worked in legislative affairs until retiring in 1970. After Democrat [[John F. Kennedy]] defeated Republican Presidential candidate [[Richard M. Nixon]] in the [[1960 United States presidential election|1960 Presidential election]], Du Val joked that he rebuffed an attempt to purchase his [[McLean, Virginia]] home by Attorney General designate [[Robert F. Kennedy]], because he and his wife found Kennedy arrogant. Du Val was a [[Rockefeller Republican]] but turned toward the [[Democratic Party (USA)|Democratic Party]] as a result of the (losing) Presidential candidacy of [[Barry Goldwater]] in 1964, and because of Du Val's local political involvement concerning development of the Merrywood estate in McLean (the childhood home of [[Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy]]). Du Val became President of the McLean Citizens Association and succeeded in getting the [[U.S. Department of the Interior]] to buy a conservation easement and thus block a proposed high rise development along that segment of the [[Potomac River]]. He later succeeded in transforming another estate along the Potomac River into the [[Scott's Run Nature Preserve]].
As a Virginia legislator (a part-time position) for nearly three decades, Du Val attributed his success to courtesy, patience and persistence.<ref name="auto">Washington Post obituary</ref> First elected to the [[Virginia House of Delegates]] in 1965 as a Democrat representing [[Fairfax County, Virginia]] after the U.S. Supreme Court decision in [[Davis v. Mann]] struck down the [[Byrd Organization]] reapportionment that had shortchanged Northern Virginia, Du Val was twice re-elected as delegate.<ref>[http://dela.state.va.us/dela/Membios.nsf/94f6e9b9c9b5678f85256b1b00732227?SearchView Search results] dela.state.va.us</ref> However, when he ran for U.S. Congress in 1966 against incumbent conservative Republican [[Joel Broyhill]] to represent [[Virginia's 10th congressional district]], he lost. The following year Du Val was one of only two northern Virginia Democratic delegates winning re-electing in what became a Republican landslide after an address by President [[Richard Nixon]] (and the collapse of the Byrd Organization).
Du Val helped revise the [[Virginia Constitution]] in 1969-1970, and became known as a Virginia gentleman despite his accent. A consumer advocate, DuVal challenged electric and telephone utility rate increases before the State Corporation Commission and [[Virginia Supreme Court]].<ref>clipping dated April 14, 1975</ref> The [[National Wildlife Federation]] twice gave Du Val awards for his clean-river legislation and environmental stewardship, and he was Virginia's member of the Environmental Quality and Natural Resources Committee of the [[Southern Legislative Conference]]. He also worked with the Virginia Citizens Consumer Council, [[Izaak Walton League]], [[Sierra Club]], [[National Trust for Historic Preservation]], and with veterans organizations and [[U.S. Chamber of Commerce|Chambers of Commerce]] in his district.
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==Legacy==
Du Val died of cancer at his historic estate on February 25, 2002. He had survived his wife of 27 years (who also died of cancer) by five years, and had dedicated an art studio at the McLean Community Center (she had served on the McLean Project for the Arts board of directors for 30 years) in her memory on April 29, 2000.<ref>Live Du Val II Dies at 89, McLean Connection February 27, 2002</ref><ref>pamphlet in clippings file at Fairfax County Regional Library</ref> Both also outlived one son (who died in 1998). Du Val was survived by two other sons, a daughter, his brother and several grandchildren.<ref
His historic house, [[Salona (McLean, Virginia)|Salona]] (once home to [[American Revolutionary War|Revolutionary War]] hero [[Henry Lee III|Henry "Light Horse Harry" Lee]], and refuge for [[Dolley Madison]] when British troops burned the White House in 1814) has been protected by a conservation easement since 1971 and has been on the [[National Register of Historic Places]] since 1973.
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