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In 1952, he worked for the gubernatorial election of Judge Carlos Gustave Spaht, I (1906-2001), a [[Missouri]] native then living in [[Baton Rouge]], as Long instructed him to do. However, he would have supported Dodd, the outgoing lieutenant  governor who was making the first of his two unsuccessful bids for governor, had Earl Long's leash not been so long. The winner that year was [[Robert F. Kennon]] of [[Minden, Louisiana|Minden]] in Webster Parish in northwestern Louisiana.

In 1952, he worked for the gubernatorial election of Judge Carlos Gustave Spaht, I (1906-2001), a [[Missouri]] native then living in [[Baton Rouge]], as Long instructed him to do. However, he would have supported Dodd, the outgoing lieutenant  governor who was making the first of his two unsuccessful bids for governor, had Earl Long's leash not been so long. The winner that year was [[Robert F. Kennon]] of [[Minden, Louisiana|Minden]] in Webster Parish in northwestern Louisiana.

==Public service commissioner==​

==Public service commissioner==

Thereafter, Clements spent his last years in politics as one of the three members of the Louisiana Public Service Commission, a rate-making body that supervises utilities and motor carriers. He was elected to the then District 2 seat in 1956, 1962, and 1968. He stepped down at the end of 1974,<ref name=findagrave/> when the body was enlarged to five members under the new Louisiana Constitution that year. Clements was first elected to succeed Wade Omer Martin, Sr. (1885-1956), of St. Martin Parish, who died in August 1956. Martin was first elected to the commission in 1932 and hence served twenty-four years. After Martin's death, Governor Long had named  E. P. Roy to a temporary appointment until the regular election could be held. Clements won that election. In the two years prior to reelection campaigns, Clements served as chairman of the commission.<ref name=bdodd/> He was also chairman in his last two years on the commission, when the junior member was then 34-year-old [[Edward Kennon|Francis Edward Kennon, Jr.]], a nephew of former Governor Robert Kennon, who Clements earlier had opposed for governor.​

Thereafter, Clements spent his last years in politics as one of the three members of the Louisiana Public Service Commission, a rate-making body that supervises utilities and motor carriers. He was elected to the then District 2 seat in 1956, 1962, and 1968. He stepped down at the end of 1974,<ref name=findagrave/> when the body was enlarged to five members under the new Louisiana Constitution that year. Clements was first elected to succeed Wade Omer Martin, Sr. (1885-1956), of St. Martin Parish, who died in August 1956. Martin was first elected to the commission in 1932 and hence served twenty-four years. After Martin's death, Governor Long had named  E. P. Roy to a temporary appointment until the regular election could be held. Clements won that election. In the two years prior to reelection campaigns, Clements served as chairman of the commission.<ref name=bdodd/> He was also chairman in his last two years on the commission, when the junior member was then 34-year-old [[Edward Kennon|Francis Edward Kennon, Jr.]], a nephew of former Governor Robert Kennon, who Clements earlier had opposed for governor.​

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