 Klippert unsuccessfully ran in the primaries for United States Senate in both 2004 and 2006.Klippert is a Pentecostal minister and a sheriff's deputy for the Benton County sheriff's department, serving as a school officer during legislative sessions and a patrol officer at other times.Klippert was in the U.S. Army Reserves in 1987 and retired from the Army National Guard as a lieutenant colonel in May 2016.