- "Mayor Lipp, a squat, freckled man in a hopelessly outdated suit, stood between two burlap sacks. He dug his hand deeply in the bag on the left, pulled out a slip of paper, and barely glanced at it."
- —Mayor Lipp during the reaping of the 10th Hunger Games[src]
Mayor Lipp was the mayor of District 12 at the time of the 10th Hunger Games.[1]
Biography[]
Mayor Lipp was the mayor of District 12 and conducted the district's reaping for the 10th Hunger Games. After reaping Lucy Gray Baird, he watched in shock as the girl slipped a snake down the dress of his daughter, Mayfair Lipp. He ran down the steps to his daughter, helping Mayfair to her feet and handing her to a Peacekeeper to lead away. Back at the stage, he struck Lucy Gray in the face and was taken away by the Peacekeepers himself to calm down before being brought back to pull out the name of the district's male tribute, Jessup Diggs.[1]
Mayor Lipp was present during Arlo Chance's hanging, along with his wife and daughter. They arrived at the hanging tree in an old car that would have been considered a luxury before the First Rebellion, and formed a tight knot at the side of the platform.[2]
After Mayfair Lipp was killed, the mayor went to the Peacekeeper base and pitched a fit to Commander Hoff about his daughter's murder, but he was not taken seriously.[3] The mayor was also sure that Lucy Gray had killed both his daughter and Billy Taupe, whose body had been found beside hers. He drove his car down to the Covey's house in the Seam, waiting outside for hours, and was determined to get her arrested.[4] When Lucy Gray disappeared into the woods outside District 12, many people suspected that the mayor himself had killed her, though they couldn't prove it.[5]
Physical description[]
Mayor Lipp was a squat, freckled man. During the reaping for the 10th Hunger Games, he wore a hopelessly outdated suit.[1]
Family[]
- "... since he’d spoiled Mayfair rotten and let her run loose like a wildcat, the feeling was he had no one to blame but himself if she had been keeping time with a rebel."
- —The Peacekeeper response to Mayfair's death[src]
Mayor Lipp had a permissive attitude towards Mayfair. After her murder, the opinion among Peacekeepers seemed to be that he had spoiled his daughter, so it was his fault as a parent that she had gotten in with a dangerous crowd.[3] Nothing is known of his relationship with his wife, save that he had one.[2]