Floyd Paxton

Floyd G. Paxton (March 7, 1918 – December 10, 1975^[1]) was a manufacturer of ballbearings during World War II,^[2] and later inventor of the bread clip, a notched plastic tag used for sealing bags of bread worldwide.^[3]

Bread clip

Paxton conceived the notion of the bread clip when he was flying in1952; this resulted later in him founding the company Kwik lok, in Yakima, Washington.^[4]

Other pursuits

Paxton was best known in the state of Washington for his very conservative political views. During the 1960s he was national president of the John Birch Society.^[5] He made four unsuccessful runs for Congress. He founded a conservative newspaper, The Yakima Eagle, which did not attract a subscriber base and soon folded. Paxton and his wife, Grace, had a running battle with the Internal Revenue Service over a family trust set up to avoid taxation, resulting in years of litigation and appeals with the IRS—with the Paxtons ultimately losing. ^[6] He died of a heart attack in December 1975 at the age of 57.^[7] He left a son, Jerre Paxton, who became a leading figure in the state's horse-racing community.^[8]

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