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the Fruehauf Trailer Company. Honors conferred upon him include the American Bronze Star, the French Legion of Honor and Cross of War with Palm, the Order of the British Empire, the Netherlands Order of Orange Nassau, the Belgian Order of Leopold, and the Greek Royal Order of the Phoenix.

He is a fellow of the American Institute of Electrical Engineers and of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (he is chairman of the ASME nuclear energy application committee), and chairman of the Michigan committee of the Newcomen Society in North America. He is also a trustee of Cornell University and of the Cranbrook Institute of Science in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan, and a member of the University of Detroit Lay Advisory Board. His clubs are the Country and Athletic of Detroit, the Metropolitan of Washington, D.C., and the Engineers' of New York.

The utilities executive married Gertrude Demuth Rippe on July 28, 1939; the Cislers have two adopted children - Richard Rippe and Jane Rippe. He is "a man who hates to waste time," Fortune remarked of Cisler, "he is the new businessman, one of the administrators of the new American capitalism."

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CLEMENTS, EARLE C. Oct 22, 1896- 
United States Senator from Kentucky; former Governor of Kentucky; farmer
Address: b. Senate Office Bldg., Washington 25, D.C.; h. Morganfield, Ky.

Described as "an immensely skilled politician whose talent for unobtrusive behind-the-stage carpentry makes him an effective instrument of government," Senator Earle C. Clements, Democrat of Kentucky, became in July 1953 acting majority leader of the upper house of Congress after Senator Lyndon B. Johnson of Texas had become ill. Previously Clements was assistant leader or Democratic "whip" in the Senate, where he has served since 1950. He has been politically classified as a "moderate" Democrat and his greatest contribution is considered to be that he presents to the Southern Democratic leaders in the Senate, the problems and claims of other members of the Democratic party with varying points of view.

He received his initial experience in Congress as Representative of the Second Kentucky District from 1945 to 1947, and from December 1947 until the time he entered the U.S. Senate, he was Governor of Kentucky. He is at present a member of the Senate Committee on Appropriations and of the Committee on Agriculture and Forestry.

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[[caption]] EARLE C. CLEMENTS [[/caption]]
[[photo credit]] Wide World [[/photo credit]]

Earle C. Clements was born in Morganfield, Union county, Kentucky on October 22, 1896. He attended public schools and the University of Kentucky at Lexington. In World War I he enlisted in the U.S. Army as a private in 1917, and was discharged with the rank of captain in the infantry. For a while after the war he coached football at Morganfield High School. His business interests are farming and stock-breeding.

In 1922 Clements began his career in public office as sheriff of Union county, Kentucky. He completed two terms in this post, and in 1926 became clerk of the county. Here he served until 1934, when he became county judge. He held this office for eight years and then was elected to the state Senate of Kentucky in November 1941. After serving in his state legislature from 1042 to 1944, and as the Senate's majority leader in 1944, he was elected Representative from the Second Kentucky District to the U.S. Seventy-ninth Congress in November 1944. Two years later, he was re-elected to the Eightieth Congress.

During his career in the House Clements served on the Committee on Agriculture and on the Committee on Post Office and Civil Service, to which he was appointed in 1945, and 1947, respectively. He introduced a bill to help stabilize the price of fire-cured and dark-air cured tobacco. This bill was amended, passed both the House and Senate, and was enacted in July 1945.

In the first session of the Seventy-ninth Congress, Clements favored the extension of the Lend-Lease act (March), the passage of the Bretton Woods Agreement bill (June), the extension of the Emergency Price Control and Stabilization acts of 1942 (June), and continued participation of the United States in the work of the United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration (December). During the following