Clements, Earle C.

Clements, Earle C., a Representative from Kentucky; born in Morganfield, Union County, Ky., October 22, 1896; attended the public schools and the University of Kentucky at Lexington; during the First World War enlisted in the United States Army as a private and when discharged was a captain of infantry; engaged in agricultural pursuits; sheriff of Union County 1922-1925; clerk of Union County 1926-1933; judge of Union County 1934-1941; member of the State senate 1942-1944, serving as majority floor leader in 1944; elected as a Democrat to the Seventy-ninth and Eightieth Congresses and served from January 3, 1945, until his resignation on January 6, 1948, having been elected Governor; elected Governor of Kentucky in 1947 for the term ending December 1951; is a resident of Morganfield, Ky.