Clyde L. Herring
| Clyde L. Herring | |
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United States Senator from Iowa |
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In office January 15, 1937 – January 3, 1943 |
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| Preceded by | Lester J. Dickinson |
| Succeeded by | George A. Wilson |
| 26th Governor of Iowa | |
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In office January 12, 1933 – January 14, 1937 |
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| Lieutenant | Nelson G. Kraschel |
| Preceded by | Daniel W. Turner |
| Succeeded by | Nelson G. Kraschel |
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Clyde LaVerne Herring May 3, 1879 Jackson, Michigan |
| Died | September 15, 1945 (aged 66) Washington, D.C. |
| Political party | Democratic |
Clyde LaVerne Herring (May 3, 1879 – September 15, 1945), an American politician and Democrat, served as the 26th Governor of Iowa, and then one of its U.S. Senators, during the last part of the Great Depression and the first part of World War II.
He was born in 1879 and raised in Jackson County, Michigan, where he attended public schools. His parents farmed until he was 14 years old, the year of the "Panic of 1893," when failing finances made it necessary for them to move to town. In 1897, at age 18, he moved to Detroit, Michigan and became a jewelry clerk.
Enlisting in the military, he served during the Spanish–American War as a private in Company D of the Third Michigan Regiment.
After the war he moved to Colorado Springs, Colorado, where he engaged in ranching from 1902 to 1906. He then moved to Massena, Iowa, where he farmed for two years (1906–1908).
As Time Magazine would recount in a 1935 cover story featuring Herring, "in Detroit he had fixed Henry Ford's watch, thus came to know that rising automobile manufacturer. From 1910 until the distributing system was reshuffled after the War, Clyde Herring was Ford agent for Iowa. By that time he had acquired $3,000,000 worth of Des Moines real estate."
In 1916–17, he served with the Iowa National Guard on the Mexican border. Returning to civilian life in Des Moines as America entered the First World War, Herring led local fundraising efforts as the chair of the Greater Des Moines Committee, and was invited to Washington to advise the federal government on speeding up production of war supplies.
Herring was the unsuccessful Democratic nominee for Governor of Iowa in 1920 (losing to Republican Nathan E. Kendall), and for the United States Senate in a 1922 special election (losing to Republican Smith W. Brookhart). He held one of Iowa's seats on the Democratic National Committee from 1924 to 1928.
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