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Clinton is a city in and the county seat of Sampson County, North Carolina, sitting at the geographic center of the county.

The first settlers came to the Clinton area around 1740, and the community was originally known as Clinton Courthouse before Clinton was incorporated as a town in 1822.

Clinton is named for Richard Clinton, a brigadier general of the North Carolina militia in the American Revolution.

Because Sampson County is primarily rural farmland, Clinton developed as the county's major agricultural marketing center.

Clinton is the birthplace of William Rufus DeVane King, the 13th vice president of the United States, who began his legal career there and remains the only American executive official ever sworn into office on foreign soil, in Havana, Cuba, in 1853.

Clinton did not officially become a city until July 1953, more than 130 years after it was incorporated as a town.

The 2020 census counted 8,383 people in Clinton, living in 3,348 households, with 3,772 housing units in the city.

Clinton has a humid subtropical climate and receives about 51 inches of rain in an average year.

Clinton fielded a minor league baseball team in the Tobacco State League from 1946 to 1950.

Seventeen Clinton properties and districts are listed on the National Register of Historic Places, including the Clinton Depot and the Clinton Commercial Historic District.