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Clem S. Clarke
Clement Steele Clarke, known as Clem S. Clarke (October 9, 1897 – March 28, 1967),〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Clem S. Clarke )〕 was an oilman from Shreveport, Louisiana, who was the first member of the Louisiana Republican Party to run for the United States Senate since implementation in 1914 of the Seventeenth Amendment to the United States Constitution. He lost the 1948 race to Democrat Russell B. Long, the older son of Huey Pierce Long, Jr.
==Background==
Clarke was born in Marietta in Washington County in southeastern Ohio, but by the age of five, he was living in Beaumont, Texas, where his father, Charles Kelly "Cal" Clarke (1865-1927), a Marietta native who had begun employment as a petroleum pipeline worker for Standard Oil, was a wildcatter at Spindletop. Soon, the senior Clarke moved his wife, the former Maude Steele, and son, their only child, to Shreveport. There Cal Clarke became the president of the Standard Oil interests in Louisiana and subsequently relocated to the capital city of Baton Rouge. There he died of a six-day illness at the age of sixty-one, his body found on the floor of his bathroom while his wife was away in New Orleans and his son in Shreveport.Clem Clarke himself became a petroleum land man, geologist, and investor.
Clarke studied mechanical engineering for two years at Cornell University in Ithaca, New York. He entered the United States Navy in 1919, after the signing of the World War I armistice.He attained the rank of ensign.
In 1920, Clarke at twenty-three obtained a patent for a metal casing used in the oil industry.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Patents: Clem S. Clarke )〕
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