Ernest Clements

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| 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) 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."​i

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