Frank G. Clement

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Inaugurated for the first time at age 32, he was the state's youngest and longest-serving governor in the 20th century with 10 years of service, having been elected to the governorship in 1952 and re-elected in 1954 and again in 1962. Clement owed much of his rapid political rise to his ability to deliver rousing, mesmerizing speeches.<ref name=tehc>Alan Griggs, "Frank G. Clement," Tennessee Encyclopedia of History and Culture, 2009. Retrieved: December 19, 2012.</ref> His sermon-like keynote address at the 1956 Democratic National Convention has been described as both one of the best and one of the worst keynote addresses in the era of televised conventions.<ref name=king>Colbert King, "Origins of a Vitriolic Keynote Speaker," Washington Post, September 11, 2004. Retrieved: December 19, 2012.</ref>

As governor, Clement oversaw the state's economic transformation from a predominantly agricultural state to an industrial state.<ref name=tehc /> He increased funding for education and mental health, and was the first Southern governor to veto a segregation bill.<ref name=tehc /> In 1956, he dispatched the National Guard to disperse a crowd attempting to prevent integration at Clinton High School.<ref name=tehc /> He attempted to enter national politics, and although his aggressive speeches at the 1956 Democratic national convention impressed some members of his own party, they disgusted many other politicians and brought an end to his federal political career.<ref name="What Would Daddy Say">Template:Cite news</ref> His final years, including his last term as governor, were marked by severe alcohol abuse which deeply affected his personal and professional life. His wife, tired of his alcoholism, filed for divorce in 1969. He died in a car accident soon after announcing his intention to run for another term.<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>

Early life

Clement was born at the Hotel Halbrook in Dickson, Tennessee, the son of Robert Samuel Clement, a local attorney and politician, and Maybelle (Goad) Clement, who operated the hotel.<ref name=tsla>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> The family moved around for several years, living briefly in Vermont and Kentucky, before returning to Dickson in the 1930s. Clement graduated from Dickson County High School in 1937.<ref name=tsla /> While still young, he took speaking lessons with his aunt.<ref name=tehc />

Clement attended Cumberland University from 1937 to 1939, where he was a member of the Sigma Alpha Epsilon fraternity. He then attended Vanderbilt University Law School, graduating with an LL.B in 1942.<ref name=tsla /> He worked as an agent for the FBI for about a year, mainly investigating internal security and espionage cases.<ref name=tsla /> In November 1943, at the height of World War II, he enlisted in the U.S. Army, eventually rising to the rank of first lieutenant and commanding officer of Company C of the Military Police Battalion at Camp Bullis in Texas.<ref name=tsla />

After leaving the Army, Clement worked as counsel for the Tennessee Railroad and Public Utilities Commission from 1946 to 1950. He was an alternate delegate to the 1948 Democratic National Convention.<ref name=tsla /> During this same period, he was elected State Commander of Tennessee's American Legion, a position through which he developed relationships with veterans in all of Tennessee's counties. In the early 1950s, he practiced law with his father in Dickson.<ref name=tsla />

First two terms as Governor of Tennessee, 1953 to 1959

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Frank Clement during a visit to Israel in 1958.

In the 1952 gubernatorial election, Clement challenged incumbent Gordon Browning for the Democratic Party's nomination. Browning, nearly twice Clement's age, derided Clement as a "demagogue" and "pipsqueak." Clement had the support of political boss E. H. Crump and Nashville Banner publisher James Stahlman, however, and travelled to all 95 of the state's counties, giving speeches in which he assailed Browning as "dishonest, indecent, and immoral."<ref name=langsdon>Phillip Langsdon, Tennessee: A Political History (Franklin, Tenn.: Hillsboro Press, 2000), pp. 325-329, 351-367.</ref> He defeated Browning for the nomination, 302,487 votes to 245,156, and routed the Republican candidate, Madisonville attorney Beecher Witt, in the general election.<ref name=langsdon /> Clement was only 32 years old when he won the election and took office. Upon inauguration, he became the youngest governor in the nation.<ref name=langsdon />

During his first term, Clement authorized a bond issue to provide free textbooks to children in grades 1 through 12, a first for the state (textbooks had previously been free through only the 3rd grade).<ref name=phillips>Margaret Phillips, The Governors of Tennessee (Pelican Publishing, 2001), pp. 162-163.</ref> He also implemented the state's first long-range highway construction project, and established a mental health department (now the Department of Mental Health and Substance Abuse Services).<ref name=tehc /> Clement raised the state's sales tax from 2% to 3%, an unpopular move that would haunt him in later elections.<ref name=phillips />

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Governor Clement (center), photographed with country music stars Jack Anglin and Johnnie Wright in 1957

In 1953, a state constitutional convention proposed eight amendments to the state constitution, all of which were subsequently approved by voters. The amendments included the extension of the gubernatorial term from two to four years, the repeal of the poll tax, and the authorization of consolidated city-county (or "metropolitan") governments.<ref name=langsdon />

While the new constitutional amendments prevented governors from seeking a second consecutive term, Clement was allowed to run for a full four-year term in 1954. He was challenged in the primary by former Governor Browning, who accused Clement and his father of "peddling" state influence.<ref name=langsdon /> Several of Clement's close associates, among them his secretary of state, Eddie Friar, and comptroller, Jean Bodfish, turned against him. Browning was unable to match Clement's oratorical skills and fundraising capabilities, however, and lost the nomination, 481,808 votes to 195,156.<ref name=langsdon /> Clement easily defeated fringe candidate John R. Neal and other token opposition in the general election.

In 1954, the U.S. Supreme Court declared state segregation laws unconstitutional in its landmark decision in Brown v. Board of Education. Clement ordered state schools to comply with the law. In 1955, Clement vetoed a bill introduced by 85-year-old state senator Charles A. Stainback that would have effectively maintained segregation in schools in Fayette and Haywood counties.<ref>Charles Fontenay, "Tennessee Senate Turns Down Aged Senator's Segregation Plea," Sarasota Journal, March 16, 1955.</ref> He also threatened to veto any attempt to change the state's mandatory school attendance law, and rejected a request by the Parents School Preference Committee to use the National Guard to prevent integration (as Arkansas Governor Orval Faubus had done).<ref name=egerton>John Egerton, "Walking into History: The Beginning of School Desegregation in Nashville," Southern Spaces, May 4, 2009. Retrieved: December 19, 2012.</ref> In September 1956, he stationed National Guard troops in Clinton, Tennessee, to protect the first black students to attend Clinton High School from anti-integration protesters.<ref name=egerton />

Constitutionally ineligible to run for governor in 1958, Clement supported the successful run of his campaign manager and Commissioner of Agriculture, Buford Ellington, and returned to the practice of law.<ref name=tsla />

1956 DNC keynote address

By the mid-1950s, Clement had national aspirations. During the 1956 presidential race, he was among the candidates on the ballot for the party's vice presidential nomination. He was also chosen to give the keynote address at the Democratic National Convention that year in Chicago, as party leaders hoped his speaking ability could help offset the popularity of the Republican incumbent, Dwight D. Eisenhower.<ref name=tehc />

Clement's speech resembled a standard Tennessee stump speech, with a strong evangelical, sermon-like tone. He derided the Republican Party as the "party of privilege and pillage,"<ref name=tehc /> referred to Vice President Richard Nixon as the "vice hatchet man," and accused President Eisenhower of staring down the "green fairways of indifference" (a reference to Eisenhower's love of golf).<ref name=tehc /> He stated that Democrats would not "crucify the American farmer on a Republican cross of gold," recalling the Cross of Gold speech delivered by William Jennings Bryan at the party's 1896 convention.<ref>W. H. Lawrence, "Democratic Keynote Talk Assails Nixon as 'Hatchet Man' of G.O.P.; Lays 'Indifference' to President," The New York Times, August 14, 1956. Retrieved: December 20, 2012.</ref> Clement's speech is often remembered for his repeated use of the phrase, "How long, America, O how long?"<ref name=tehc />

Clement's speech received raucous applause from convention delegates, and was well received by Democrats in general. Washington Post columnist Colbert I. King recalled watching the speech as a teenager and thinking afterward that Eisenhower and Nixon had no chance of winning.<ref name=king /> Future president Bill Clinton, then 9 years old, watched the speech from his parents' living room, and later described it as a "rousing" address in his memoir, My Life.<ref>Bill Clinton, My Life (Random House, 2005), p. 35.</ref> Future Georgia governor Zell Miller, who would later deliver speeches at the 1992 Democratic convention and the 2004 Republican convention, missed the birth of his son to see Clement's speech.<ref name=king />

Many members of the national media panned Clement's speech. Time columnist Lance Morrow called the speech a "symphony of rhetorical excess."<ref>Lance Morrow, "The Decline and Fall of Oratory," Time, August 18, 1980.</ref> New York Herald Tribune writer Red Smith likened the speech to "slaying the Republicans with the jawbone of an ass."<ref name=king /> David Halberstam described it as a "thundering overheated, overlong, overkill speech" that ended Clement's career as a national politician.<ref>David Halberstam, The Powers That Be (University Press of Illinois, 2000), p. 324.</ref> Evangelist Billy Graham disapproved of the speech, and distanced himself from Clement afterward.<ref>Steven Miller, Billy Graham and the Rise of the Republican South (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2011), p. 75.</ref> Arthur Langlie, who was slated to deliver the keynote address at the Republican convention later that year, stated, "I'll be passing up the Chicago brand of prejudicial fire and brimstone."<ref>"Republicans: The Rebuttal Begins," Time, August 27, 1956.</ref>

Third term as Governor, 1963 to 1967

In 1962, Clement once again sought the party's nomination for governor. In the primary, he defeated Memphis attorney Bill Farris and Chattanooga mayor Rudy Olgiati, by 97,521 votes<ref name=langsdon /> In the general election, he defeated Maryville attorney Hubert Patty, the Republican candidate, and retired naval captain William Anderson of Waverly, who was running as an independent by 215,764 votes.

When Senator Estes Kefauver died in office in August 1963, Clement surprised some by not appointing himself to the office, but rather a caretaker, Herbert S. Walters. However, Clement did enter the 1964 Democratic primary for the seat, losing to Congressman Ross Bass of Pulaski by 96,968 votes.<ref name=langsdon /> During the campaign, Clement was attacked for the sales tax increase enacted during his first tenure as governor.<ref name=langsdon />

Clement's alcohol addiction reached a critical level during the 1960s. His alcoholism caused him to become alienated from many of his friends and affected his thinking ability. Although newspapers did not extensively cover his addiction to liquor, friends and family members noticed that Clement spent much time drinking and lost some of his political effectiveness.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

Since the 1964 election was for the balance of Kefauver's unexpired term, the seat was to be contested again in 1966. In the primary, Clement defeated Bass for the nomination, by 18,243 votes.<ref name=langsdon /> His campaign faltered in the general election, however, as his long-time political ally, Buford Ellington, refused to endorse him, and he failed to pick up critical endorsements from the Nashville Tennessean, the Nashville Banner, and the Memphis Commercial Appeal. The Republican candidate, rising politician Howard Baker, successfully connected Clement to President Lyndon B. Johnson's social policies, which were unpopular among rural Tennesseans.<ref name=langsdon /> On election day, Baker defeated Clement, by 99,220 votes

Later life and other work

After leaving office, Clement practiced law in partnership with Grant Smith.<ref name=tsla /> His wife, who had become tired of her husband's alcoholism, filed for divorce in 1969.<ref name="What Would Daddy Say"/> He announced his intention to run for a fourth term as governor in 1970, but on November 4, 1969, shortly after the start of his campaign, he was involved in a car crash near Nashville and was pronounced dead.<ref name=tehc /><ref>Template:Cite news</ref> At the time of his death, he and his estranged wife were headed towards reconciliation.<ref name="What Would Daddy Say"/> His 10 total years as governor of Tennessee are the longest any person served in the position in the 20th century, and longer than all but two 19th-century governors, John Sevier and William Carroll. His remains were interred at Dickson County Memorial Gardens near Dickson.<ref name=tsla />

In 1959, Clement served as honorary Co-Chairman on the Board of Directors for the newly founded Country Music Association (CMA). He and Albert Gore, Sr., were bestowed this honor in appreciation for their public service to the state of Tennessee and their support in accommodating the country music industry.<ref>Board of Directors Template:Webarchive, CMAWorld.com</ref> In 1970, the CMA honored Clement with the Connie B. Gay Award in recognition of his outstanding service to the association.<ref>Founding President's Award (formerly Connie B. Gay Award) Template:Webarchive, CMAWorld.com</ref>

Clement was a 32nd degree Mason and a member of the Shriners.<ref name=tsla /> He was also an active Methodist, and taught Sunday school throughout the 1960s.<ref name=tsla />

Family and legacy

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Senator Lamar Alexander (left) discusses Governor Clement's role in the 1956 desegregation of Clinton High School with Clement's sister, Anna Belle, and son, Bob

Clement's sister, Anna Belle Clement O'Brien (1923–2009), worked as his chief of staff in the 1960s, and later served in the state legislature, initially in the state House of Representatives (1975–1977), and afterward in the state senate (1977–1991).

Clement married Lucille Christianson in 1940. They had three sons, two of whom are still living. Bob Clement has served as Tennessee Public Service Commissioner, director of the Tennessee Valley Authority, president of Cumberland University, and a member of the United States House of Representatives from 1987 to 2003. Frank G. Clement, Jr., has been an attorney, a probate court judge, and currently serves on the Tennessee Court of Appeals.

The Hotel Halbrook, where Clement was born in Dickson, is now home to the Clement Railroad Hotel Museum, and has been listed on the National Register of Historic Places. Clement's namesakes include buildings at Austin Peay State University,<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}, Austin Peay State University Website. Retrieved: July 16, 2012.</ref> the University of Tennessee,<ref>Clement Hall, University of Tennessee website. Retrieved: December 20, 2012.</ref> Tennessee Tech,<ref>Plaque at entrance to Clement Hall, Cookeville, Tennessee.</ref> Tennessee State University,<ref>Frank G. Clement Hall, Tennessee State University website. Retrieved: December 20, 2012.</ref> and the University of Tennessee at Martin, as well as a golf course at Montgomery Bell State Park and a bridge over Barren Fork in McMinnville.

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Frank Goad Clement – entry at the National Governors Association
Portrait painting of Governor Clement Template:Webarchive – Tennessee Portrait Project
Portrait photograph of Governor Clement – Tennessee State Library and Archives
Frank G. Clement – Getty Images
Governor Frank Goad Clement Papers, 1953-1959. GP 47. Tennessee State Library and Archives
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