Dan J. Clemens (January 3, 1945 – July 22, 2019) was a Republican member of the

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Biography

He was born in

Webster County, Missouri Webster County is a county located in the U.S. state of Missouri. As of the 2020 census, the population was 39,085. Its county seat is Marshfield. The county was organized in 1855 and named for U.S. Senator and U.S. Secretary of State Dani ...

, and educated in the schools of Marshfield, where he was an active member of

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. He later went to the

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, where he was elected to the Missouri Senate, and obtained a master's degree in agriculture there. He was the owner and operator of a third-generation family farm where he raised row crops. He attended the First Baptist Church, and served on the Soil and Water District Commission, the Agriculture Advisory Commission, and a farmer representative on the James River Partnership. He also served as president of the Marshfield School Board and the Webster Electric Co-op Foundation Board, and as state corporate board member of the Missouri Farmer's Association. He was first elected to the Missouri State Senate in 2002, defeating Democratic state house speaker

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. Due to Missouri term limit restrictions he was ineligible to run again in 2010. He died on July 22, 2019, at the age of 74. No cause was given.State mourns the passing of former State Senator Dan Clemens
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References

*''Official Manual, State of Missouri, 2005-2006.'' Jefferson City, Missouri: Secretary of State. 1945 births 2019 deaths Republican Party Missouri state senators People from Marshfield, Missouri Baptists from Missouri University of Missouri alumni School board members in Missouri Farmers from Missouri 21st-century Baptists 20th-century Baptists 21st-century members of the Missouri General Assembly {{Missouri-MOSenate-stub