Frank G. Clement
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Frank Goad Clement was an American lawyer and politician who served as the 41st Governor of Tennessee from 1953 to 1959 and from 1963 to 1967. Inaugurated for the first time at age 32, he was the state's youngest and longest-serving governor in the 20th century. Clement owed much of his rapid political rise to his ability to deliver rousing, mesmerizing speeches. His sermon-like keynote address at the 1956 Democratic National Convention has been described as both one of the best and one of the worst keynote addresses in the era of televised conventions.
Frank G. Clement
Frank Clement during a visit to Israel in 1958.
Governor Clement (center), photographed with country music stars Jack Anglin and Johnnie Wright in 1957
Senator Lamar Alexander (left) discusses Governor Clement's role in the 1956 desegregation of Clinton High School with Clement's sister, Anna Belle, and son, Bob
1956 Democratic National Convention
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The 1956 Democratic National Convention nominated former Governor Adlai Stevenson of Illinois for president and Senator Estes Kefauver of Tennessee for vice president. It was held in the International Amphitheatre on the South Side of Chicago from August 13 to August 17, 1956. Unsuccessful candidates for the presidential nomination included Governor W. Averell Harriman of New York, Senator Lyndon B. Johnson of Texas, and Senator Stuart Symington of Missouri.
The Chicago skyline along the Magnificent Mile on the night of August 11, 1956, two days before the convention's opening session
U.S. Senator John F. Kennedy nominates Stevenson as the Democratic candidate for president.
John Daly and Quincy Howe providing ABC's coverage of the convention. 1956 was the second election year that the conventions were broadcast coast-to-coast
Former President Truman (left) greets Eleanor Roosevelt (right) at the convention as Adlai Stevenson (center) looks on