Education and Early Career
Claypool received his bachelor's degree from Southern Illinois University in Carbondale and a law degree from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. After school, Claypool worked as an attorney and served in several non-elected positions in state and county government, including deputy commissioner of the Cook County Board of Appeals and as deputy state treasurer.
In 1984, he helped his friend David Axelrod, a Democratic political consultant, found the firm Axelrod and Associates (now AKP Message & Media). Claypool served as the firm's managing partner until 1989 when he left to serve in the administration of Mayor Richard M. Daley.
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