title: Barnett McFee Clinedinst
text: # Barnett McFee Clinedinst
  
  Barnett McFee Clinedinst (September 12, 1862 – March 15, 1953) was the official White House photographer. Clinedinst was born in Woodstock, Virginia, to Barnett M. Clinedinst and Mary C. South.
  
  In his youth he operated a circus and worked as a salesman. He then learned photography from his father. By 1900 he opened a photographic studio in Washington, DC. He became the White House photographer for President McKinley, Theodore Roosevelt, and President Taft.
  
  He died on March 15, 1953, in Saint Petersburg, Florida.
  
  ## Photographs
  
  * Colonel Robert Newton Harper
  * Dudley Field Malone
  * Magnus Johnson
  * Herbert Hoover
  * Riccardo Vasquez, Luis D'Antin, Óscar E. Duplán Maldonado, Francisco Peredo, Luis Peredo and Arrendondo, and Jose Arrendondo
  