Ernest Clements
{{Infobox officeholder
| name=Ernest S. Clements
| office=Louisiana State Senator for Allen, [[Beauregard, Calcasieu, Cameron, and Jefferson Davis parishes
| term_start=1936
| term_end=1944
| preceded=Walter Scott Heywood
Clement M. Moss
| succeeded=James O. Dolby
Gilbert Franklin Hennigan
| office2=Louisiana Public Service Commissioner from District 2
| term_start2=1956
| term_end2=1974
| preceded2=E. P. Roy (interim for Wade Omer Martin, Sr.)
| succeeded2=Thomas E. Powell (revised District 4)
| birth_date=April 17, 1898
| birth_place=
| death_date=May 17, 1987 (aged 89)
| resting_place=Oberlin Cemetery
| residence=Oberlin, Allen Parish, Louisiana
| spouse=Irene R. Woods "Rene" Clements
| children=Elaine Marion Clements Snapp (1920-2014)
| religion=Southern Baptist
| party=Democrat
Unsuccessful gubernatorial candidate, 1944
}}
Ernest S. Clements (April 17, 1898 – May 17, 1987)[1] was a most unusual member of the 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. 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 Kemp Long) on down to the sound-truck drivers, could keep from playing tricks on him."Cite error: Closing </ref> missing for <ref> tagi
==References==
- ↑ Ernest Clements. Findagrave.com. Retrieved on January 6, 2020.
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