Clement Steele Clarke (October 9, 1897 – March 28, 1967), was an

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man from Shreveport, Louisiana, who was the first member of the Louisiana Republican Party to run for the

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since implementation in 1914 of the Seventeenth Amendment to the

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. He lost the 1948 race to

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, the older son of

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Clarke's first marriage was to Marjorie Terry, daughter of Dr. Roy A. Terry of

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. The couple wed on July 13, 1934. The couple soon divorced, and Marjorie Clark married Donald Ballard on December 22, 1936.

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