Frank G. Clement
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Frank Goad Clement was an American lawyer and politician who served as the 41st governor of Tennessee from 1953 to 1959 and from 1963 to 1967.
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Frank Clement during a visit to Israel in 1958.
Governor Clement (center), photographed with country music stars Jack Anglin and Johnnie Wright in 1957
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, BobPoliticians from United States 6
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Frank Goad Clement was an American lawyer and politician who served as the 41st governor of Tennessee 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 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. 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.
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