US Congressman. He was a United States Representative from the State of California. He was born one of two children as Glenard Paul Lipscomb to Paul Edward Lipscomb (1891-1969), and his wife Eva Marie Kipp Lipscomb (1895-1928), in Jackson, Michigan, on August 19, 1915. He was educated locally and later moved with his parents to Los Angeles, California, in 1920. He attended the local common public schools in the Los Angeles, California, area, and then attended the prestigious University of Southern California in Los Angeles, California, and the prestigious Woodbury College in Burbank, California, where he studied to be an accountant. Following his education, he took up his chosen profession as an accountant in the Los Angeles, California, area. During World War II, he served in the United States Army, with the Financial Corps. Following his military service, he took an interest in politics. He then ran and was elected to a term as a Member of the California State Assembly representing the 56th District in 1947. He was reelected as a Member of the California State Assembly representing the 56th District three more times, in 1948, 1950, and 1952. He also served as a Delegate to the Republican National Convention in 1956. He then decided to run for a seat in the United States Congress and was elected to succeed the outgoing United States Representative Charles Norris Poulson (1895-1982), on November 10, 1953. He was originally elected by a special election to fill the seat after the vacancy was caused by the resignation of United States Representative Charles Norris Poulson (1895-1982), on June 11, 1953. He was then reelected on November 10, 1953, to the Eighty-Fourth Congress and to the seven succeeding Congresses, including the Eighty-Third Congress, Eighty-Fifth Congress, Eighty-Sixth Congress, Eighty-Seventh Congress, Eighty-Eighth Congress, Eighty-Ninth Congress, Ninetieth Congress, and the Ninety-First Congress, after that. In total, he was reelected in 1954, 1956, 1958, 1960, 1962, 1964, 1966, and 1968. A Member of the Republican Party, he then served California's 24th District (Eighty-Third Congress, Eighty-Fourth Congress, Eighty-Fifth Congress, Eighty-Sixth Congress, Eighty-Seventh Congress, Eighty-Eighth Congress, Eighty-Ninth Congress, Ninetieth Congress, and the Ninety-First Congress), in the United States House of Representatives from November 10, 1953, until his death in office on February 1, 1970. While serving in the United States Congress, he voted in favor of the Civil Rights Acts of 1957 and the Civil Rights Acts of 1960. He was also instrumental in voting in favor of the 24th Amendment to the United States Constitution which was proposed by the United States Congress to the states on August 27, 1962, and was ratified by the states on January 23, 1964, and voting in favor of the Voting Rights Act of 1965, but he voted against both the Civil Rights Acts of 1964, and the Civil Rights Acts of 1968. Following his death on February 1, 1970. while still serving his term in the United States Congress, he was succeeded in office by the incoming United States Representative John Harbin Rousselot (1927-2003), on June 30, 1970, who was elected to the Ninety-first Congress in California's 24th District, by special election, to fill the vacancy caused by United States Representative Glenard Paul Lipscomb's untimely passing. He passed away following a long bout with cancer at the Bethesda Naval Hospital in Bethesda, Maryland, on February 1, 1970, at the age of 54, and he was buried in Forest Lawn Memorial Park in Hollywood Hills, California. He was married to Virginia Sognalian Lipscomb (1916-2002), with whom he had two daughters, Diane Marie Lipscomb and Joyce Elaine Lipscomb. The submarine USS Glenard P. Lipscomb was named in his memory and the BSA camp near Big Bear Lake, California, was named Camp Lipscomb after him as well.