Frank Goad Clement (June 2, 1920 – November 4, 1969) was an American lawyer and politician who served as the 41st
Governor of Tennessee
The governor of Tennessee is the head of government of the U.S. state of Tennessee. The governor is the only official in Tennessee state government who is directly elected by the voters of the entire state.
The current governor is Bill Lee, a ...
from 1953 to 1959 and from 1963 to 1967. Inaugurated for the first time at age 32, he was the state's youngest and longest-serving governor in the 20th century. Clement owed much of his rapid political rise to his ability to deliver rousing, mesmerizing speeches.
[Alan Griggs,]
Frank G. Clement
" ''Tennessee Encyclopedia of History and Culture'', 2009. Retrieved: 19 December 2012. His sermon-like
keynote
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address at the
1956 Democratic National Convention
The 1956 Democratic National Convention nominated former Governor Adlai Stevenson of Illinois for president and Senator Estes Kefauver of Tennessee for vice president. It was held in the International Amphitheatre on the South Side of Chica ...
has been described as both one of the best and one of the worst keynote addresses in the era of televised conventions.
[Colbert King,]
Origins of a Vitriolic Keynote Speaker
" ''Washington Post'', 11 September 2004. Retrieved: 19 December 2012.
As governor, Clement oversaw the state's economic transformation from a predominantly agricultural state to an industrial state.
He increased funding for education and mental health, and was the first Southern governor to veto a
segregation bill.
In 1956, he dispatched the National Guard to disperse a crowd attempting to prevent
integration at
Clinton High School.
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.
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 a fourth term.
Early life
Clement was born at the
Hotel Halbrook in
Dickson, Tennessee
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History
Dickson was named for Congressman William Dickson, as ...
, the son of Robert Samuel Clement, a local attorney and politician, and Maybelle (Goad) Clement, who operated the hotel.
The family moved around for several years, living briefly in
Vermont
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and
Kentucky
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, before returning to Dickson in the 1930s. Clement graduated from Dickson County High School in 1937.
While still young, he took speaking lessons with his aunt.
Clement attended
Cumberland University
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History
1842-1861
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from 1937 to 1939, where he was a member of the
Sigma Alpha Epsilon
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fraternity. He then attended
Vanderbilt University Law School
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, graduating with an
LL.B in 1942.
He worked as an agent for the
FBI
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for about a year, mainly investigating internal security and espionage cases.
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
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The rank of lieutenant has different meanings in different military formations, but in most forces it is sub-divided into a ...
and commanding officer of Company C of the Military Police Battalion at
Camp Bullis
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in Texas.
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
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.
During this same period, he was elected State Commander of Tennessee's
American Legion
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, 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.
Governor, 1953–1959
In the
1952 gubernatorial election, Clement challenged incumbent
Gordon Browning
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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."
[Phillip Langsdon, ''Tennessee: A Political History'' (Franklin, Tenn.: Hillsboro Press, 2000), pp. 325-329, 351-367.] 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.
Clement was only 32 years old when he won the election and took office. Upon inauguration, he became the youngest governor in the nation.
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).
[Margaret Phillips, ]
The Governors of Tennessee
' (Pelican Publishing, 2001), pp. 162-163. 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).
Clement raised the state's sales tax from 2% to 3%, an unpopular move that would haunt him in later elections.
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
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, and the authorization of
consolidated city-county (or "metropolitan") governments.
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.
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.
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
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''. Clement ordered state schools to comply with the law. In 1955, Clement vetoed a bill introduced by 85-year-old state senator Charles Stainback that would have effectively maintained segregation in schools in
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counties. 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
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In 1957, he refused to comply with a unanimous ...
had done).
[John Egerton,]
Walking into History: The Beginning of School Desegregation in Nashville
" ''Southern Spaces'', 4 May 2009. Retrieved: 19 December 2012. 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.
Constitutionally ineligible to run for governor in 1958, Clement supported the successful run of his campaign manager and Commissioner of Agriculture,
Buford Ellington
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, and returned to the practice of law.
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
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, as party leaders hoped his speaking ability could help offset the popularity of the Republican incumbent,
Dwight D. Eisenhower
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.
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,"
referred to Vice President
Richard Nixon
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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).
He stated that Democrats would not "crucify the American farmer on a Republican cross of gold," recalling the
Cross of Gold speech
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delivered by
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at the party's
1896 convention. Clement's speech is often remembered for his repeated use of the phrase, "How long, America, O how long?"
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.
Future president
Bill Clinton
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, 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''. Future Georgia governor
Zell Miller
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, 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.
Many members of the national media panned Clement's speech. ''
Time
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'' columnist
Lance Morrow
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called the speech a "symphony of rhetorical excess." ''
New York Herald Tribune
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'' writer
Red Smith likened the speech to "slaying the Republicans with the jawbone of an ass."
David Halberstam
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described it as a "thundering overheated, overlong, overkill speech" that ended Clement's career as a national politician. Evangelist
Billy Graham
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disapproved of the speech, and distanced himself from Clement afterward.
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."
Governor, 1963–1967
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, 309,333 votes to 211,812 for Olgiati and 202,813 for Farris.
In the general election, he defeated
Maryville attorney Hubert Patty, the Republican candidate, and retired
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of
Waverly, who was running as an independent.
When Senator
Estes Kefauver
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July 26, 1903 – August 10, 1963) was an American politician from Tennessee. A member of the Democratic Party, he served in the U.S. House of Representatives from 1939 to 1949 and in the Senate from 1949 until his de ...
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 a vote of 330,213 to 233,245.
During the campaign, Clement was attacked for the sales tax increase enacted during his first tenure as governor.
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.
Since the 1964 election was for the balance of Kefauver's unexpired term, the seat was to be contested again in
1966
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. In the primary, Clement defeated Bass for the nomination, 384,322 votes to 366,078.
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
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''. The Republican candidate, rising politician
Howard Baker
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, successfully connected Clement to President
Lyndon B. Johnson
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's social policies, which were unpopular among rural Tennesseans.
On election day, Baker defeated Clement, 483,063 votes to 383,843—a margin of 11 percentage points (55.7 percent to 44.1 percent).
Later life and other work
After leaving office, Clement practiced law in partnership with Grant Smith.
His wife, who had become tired of her husband's alcoholism, filed for divorce in 1969.
He announced a fourth gubernatorial campaign in 1969, but died in a car crash on Franklin Road in Nashville just after making the announcement.
At the time of his death, he and his estranged wife were headed towards reconciliation.
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
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and
William Carroll. His remains were interred at Dickson County Memorial Gardens near Dickson.
In 1959, Clement served as honorary Co-Chairman on the Board of Directors for the newly founded
Country Music Association
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(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. In 1970, the CMA honored Clement with the
Connie B. Gay Award in recognition of his outstanding service to the association.
Clement was a 32nd degree
Mason
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and a member of the
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.
He was also an active
Methodist
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, and taught
Sunday school
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Su ...
throughout the 1960s.
Family and legacy
Clement's sister,
Anna Belle Clement O'Brien (1923–2009), worked as his
chief of staff
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in the 1960s, and later served in the state legislature, initially in the state
House of Representatives
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(1975–1977), and afterward in the
state senate
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(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
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, president of Cumberland University, and a member of the
United States House of Representatives
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from 1987 to 2003. Frank G. Clement, Jr., has been an attorney, a
probate court
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judge, and currently serves on the
Tennessee Court of Appeals
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.
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
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. Clement's namesakes include buildings at
Austin Peay State University
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, the
University of Tennessee
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,
Tennessee Technological University
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,
Tennessee State University
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,
Frank G. Clement Hall
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, as well as a golf course at Montgomery Bell State Park
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and a bridge over Barren Fork in McMinnville.
See also
*List of governors of Tennessee
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Further reading
*Greene, Lee Seifert. ''Lead Me On: Frank Goad Clement and Tennessee Politics''. Knoxville, Tenn.: University of Tennessee Press, 2007. .
References
External links
Frank Goad Clement
– entry at the National Governors Association
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Portrait painting of Governor Clement
– 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
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