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| resting_place=Oberlin Cemetery
| resting_place=Oberlin Cemetery
| residence=Oberlin, Allen Parish, Louisiana
| residence=Oberlin, Allen Parish, Louisiana
| spouse=Irene R. Woods "Rene" Clements
| spouse=Irene R. Woods "Rene" Clements (1898-1971)
| children=Elaine Marion Clements Snapp (1920-2014)
| children=Elaine Marion Clements Snapp (1920-2014)
| religion=[[Southern Baptist]]
| religion=[[Southern Baptist]]
'''Ernest S. Clements''' (April 17, 1898 – May 17, 1987)<ref name=findagrave>{{cite web|url= https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/7675210/ernest-clements|title=Ernest Clements|publisher=Findagrave.com|accessdate=January 6, 2020}}</ref> was a most unusual member of the [[Huey Long|Long]] political faction in [[Louisiana]] in a career which spanned thirty-eight years from the 1930s to the 1970s. The pious, introverted Clements did not fit the public image of the no-holds-barred, extroverted Long man. [[Bill Dodd|William J. "Bill" Dodd]], a former lieutenant governor, state auditor, and state education superintendent who was a long-time observer of Louisiana politics, described his friend Clements as "zealous and a fine orator in the old-school style . . . [but] so humorless, straitlaced, and self-righteous that none of us, from Earl ([[Earl Long|Earl Kemp Long]]) on down to the sound-truck drivers, could keep from playing tricks on him."<ref name=bdodd>[[Bill Dodd|William J. "Bill" Dodd]], ''Peapatch Politics: The Earl Long Era in Louisiana Politics,'' ([[Baton Rouge]], [[Louisiana]]: Claitor's Publishing, 1991.)</ref>
'''Ernest S. Clements''' (April 17, 1898 – May 17, 1987)<ref name=findagrave>{{cite web|url= https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/7675210/ernest-clements|title=Ernest Clements|publisher=Findagrave.com|accessdate=January 6, 2020}}</ref> was a most unusual member of the [[Huey Long|Long]] political faction in [[Louisiana]] in a career which spanned thirty-eight years from the 1930s to the 1970s. The pious, introverted Clements did not fit the public image of the no-holds-barred, extroverted Long man. [[Bill Dodd|William J. "Bill" Dodd]], a former lieutenant governor, state auditor, and state education superintendent who was a long-time observer of Louisiana politics, described his friend Clements as "zealous and a fine orator in the old-school style . . . [but] so humorless, straitlaced, and self-righteous that none of us, from Earl ([[Earl Long|Earl Kemp Long]]) on down to the sound-truck drivers, could keep from playing tricks on him."<ref name=bdodd>[[Bill Dodd|William J. "Bill" Dodd]], ''Peapatch Politics: The Earl Long Era in Louisiana Politics,'' ([[Baton Rouge]], [[Louisiana]]: Claitor's Publishing, 1991.)</ref>
==The most loyal Longite==
==The most loyal Longite==