Chosen to deliver the keynote address at the Democratic National Convention in Chicago on Aug. 13: Tennessee's Governor Frank Goad Clement.
Early Life & Education: Born June 2, 1920, Dickson, Tenn., son of a druggist-turned-lawyer. Voluntarily tromped off at the age of eight to join the Methodist Church, preached his first sermon at 15. Specially tutored in public speaking by his aunt, Mrs. Dockie Shipp Weems, director of Shipp School of Expression. Married Lucille Christianson at 19, passed state bar examinations (with highest grade out of 276) a year before graduating from Vanderbilt...
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