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==Seminary president==

==Seminary president==

In 1951, Clover instituted Bible classes for Christian workers.[3] In 1952, he officially launched LMBIS with two students, then instructed from his own home.[4] Among the first graduates was [[Jimmy G. Tharpe]], later the founder of [[Louisiana Baptist University and Theological Seminary]], an Independent Baptist entity in Shreveport.[5]

In 1951, Clover instituted Bible classes for Christian workers.[3] In 1952, he officially launched LMBIS with two students, then instructed from his own home.[4] Among the first graduates was [[Jimmy G. Tharpe]], later the founder of [[Louisiana Baptist University|Louisiana Baptist University and Theological Seminary]], an Independent Baptist entity in Shreveport.[5]

Clover was LMBIS president for nineteen years and president-emeritus for the remainder of his life. As president, he established a print shop and the Missionary Baptist Bookstore. He launched and for more than a decade edited the ''Missionary Baptist News''. He was succeeded as the Calvary pastor by Irvin Russell Roshto (born 1934), later of Lufkin and Vidor, Texas, who also subsequently followed Clover as the LMBIS president. The current long-time LMBIS president is another former Calvary Baptist pastor, Donald McCormick.[6]

Clover was LMBIS president for nineteen years and president-emeritus for the remainder of his life. As president, he established a print shop and the Missionary Baptist Bookstore. He launched and for more than a decade edited the ''Missionary Baptist News''. He was succeeded as the Calvary pastor by Irvin Russell Roshto (born 1934), later of Lufkin and Vidor, Texas, who also subsequently followed Clover as the LMBIS president. The current long-time LMBIS president is another former Calvary Baptist pastor, Donald McCormick.[6]

Clover was an ectomorphic, bespectacled, red-haired, and ruddy-complexioned man.[13] After his initial retirement, the Clovers relocated to Arkadelphia, Arkansas, which is listed in the Social Security Death Index as his final residence, but they had returned to Minden, where he had resumed teaching at LMBIS for the last two years of his life. He died at the age of seventy-three in the home of Wilton Wager, then pastor of the Trinity Missionary Baptist Church in Camden, Arkansas, where Clover had been preaching weeklong revival services, a then customary practice in most Baptist churches.[14]

Clover was an ectomorphic, bespectacled, red-haired, and ruddy-complexioned man.[13] After his initial retirement, the Clovers relocated to Arkadelphia, Arkansas, which is listed in the Social Security Death Index as his final residence, but they had returned to Minden, where he had resumed teaching at LMBIS for the last two years of his life. He died at the age of seventy-three in the home of Wilton Wager, then pastor of the Trinity Missionary Baptist Church in Camden, Arkansas, where Clover had been preaching weeklong revival services, a then customary practice in most Baptist churches.[14]

==Death and legacy==

==Death and legacy==