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Clements' studies were interrupted by the outbreak of [[World War I]].<ref name=harrison206>Harrison in ''The Kentucky Encyclopedia,'' p. 206.</ref> In 1917, he enlisted as a private in Company M of the Kentucky National Guard.<ref name=jillson377>Willard Rouse Jillson, "Governor Earle C. Clements, ''The Register of the Kentucky Historical Society, Vol. 46, p. 377.</ref> The soldiers in his company were dispatched to Camp Taylor near [[Louisville]] where he was mustered into the infantry of the [[United States Army]]. Clements then entered the officer training school at Fort [[Benjamin Harrison]] near [[Indianapolis]], [[Indiana]],<ref name=jillson377/> from which he graduated with the rank of first lieutenant. He remained within the country as a professor of military science. He reached the rank of [[Captain]] prior to his discharge from the Army in 1919.<ref name=jillson377/>

Clements' studies were interrupted by the outbreak of [[World War I]].<ref name=harrison206>Harrison in ''The Kentucky Encyclopedia,'' p. 206.</ref> In 1917, he enlisted as a private in Company M of the Kentucky National Guard.<ref name=jillson377>Willard Rouse Jillson, "Governor Earle C. Clements, ''The Register of the Kentucky Historical Society, Vol. 46, p. 377.</ref> The soldiers in his company were dispatched to Camp Taylor near [[Louisville]] where he was mustered into the infantry of the [[United States Army]]. Clements then entered the officer training school at Fort [[Benjamin Harrison]] near [[Indianapolis]], [[Indiana]],<ref name=jillson377/> from which he graduated with the rank of first lieutenant. He remained within the country as a professor of military science. He reached the rank of [[Captain]] prior to his discharge from the Army in 1919.<ref name=jillson377/>

After the war, Clements worked for two years in the burgeoning [[petroleum]] fields of East [[Texas]]. His father was a county judge and [[sheriff]] in Union County. When the senior Clements' health began to fail, Clements returned to Kentucky to help with the farm and served as his deputy sheriff. On January 18, 1927, Clements married the former Sara M. Blue (1894–1976).<ref name=findagrave/> Their only child, Elizabeth "Bess" Hughes Clements Abel (1933–2020), became the social secretary to First Lady [[Lyndon B. Johnson|Lady Bird Johnson]] and later U.S. Senator [[Walter Mondale]], who lost the 1984 presidential election to [[Ronald Reagan]].<ref name=kygovs190>Thomas H. Syvertsen, ''Kentucky's Governors,'' p. 190.</ref>

After the war, Clements worked for two years in the burgeoning [[petroleum]] fields of East [[Texas]]. His father was a county judge and [[sheriff]] in Union County. When the senior Clements' health began to fail, Clements returned to Kentucky to help with the farm and served as his deputy sheriff. On January 18, 1927, Clements married the former Sara M. Blue (1894–1976).<ref name=findagrave/> Their only child, Elizabeth "Bess" Hughes Clements Abel (1933–2020), became the social secretary to First Lady [[Lyndon B. Johnson|Lady Bird Johnson]] and later U.S. Senator [[Walter Mondale]], who lost the [[United States presidential election, 1984|1984 presidential election]] to [[Ronald Reagan]].<ref name=kygovs190>Thomas H. Syvertsen, ''Kentucky's Governors,'' p. 190.</ref>

==Political career==

==Political career==