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578:. Clements had represented the Chickamauga area, and he had worked hard for the passage of the bill authorizing the park. In an April 1891 interview, Clements indicated that he had been able to secure 1,300-1,400 acres but progress had been slow due to absentee owners and the unwillingness of landowners to live under War Department rules in the incipient park. He stated that he expected most negotiations to be concluded by late 1891.
488:, Clements attended the local schools, concluding his childhood schooling when he left an academy near Villanow to join the Confederate States Army in January 1864, while still aged seventeen. His father, Adam C. Clements, had been a member of the Georgia House of Representatives from 1853 to 1854 and from 1861 to 1862, under the Confederacy. Judson Clements served in the Confederate Army during the remainder of the
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appointed chairman instead. However, at the time, the
Commission invariably appointed its senior member as chairman, and Clements was elected. His predecessors had continued to serve as chair until they left the Commission; however, Clements chose to serve only the one-year term. He was interred in
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in 1906. Clements favored the physical valuation of railroads, which would aid in accessing taxation and allow the
Commission to better evaluate rate increase requests. In 1911, after serving a month as acting chairman, he was elected chairman for a one-year term despite the reported opposition of
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As a commissioner, he was considered to be a radical. Clements was among the commissioners who led the fight for the
Commission to get real power over the railroads, a battle which nearly led to the Commission being legislated out of existence but which resulted in the passing of the
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Regiment, Georgia State Troops, Stovall's brigade. He was wounded at Atlanta, July 22, 1864. Clements married Bettie Wardlaw, but she died after only a year, and he remained a widower for many years.
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In 1916, Clements proposed that no worker be allowed to quit a railway company or urge others to do the same until the
Commission had the opportunity to investigate the matter in a fair and equitable manner.
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Clements welcomed reconciliation between North and South. At an 1889 reunion of veterans, Clements stated that
Northern and Southern veterans had worked together to rebuild the South after the Civil War.
594:, he became acting chairman of the Committee, and in 1911 became chairman of the Commission for a one-year term. In addition to being appointed by President Harrison, he was reappointed by Presidents
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Alabama, who had died. After being confirmed by the Senate, Clements was sworn in on March 17, 1892. On December 12, 1910, with the resignation of longtime Commission chair
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521:, remaining in practice there until 1887. Clements was elected as school commissioner of Walker County in 1871 and 1872. He served as member of the
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President Harrison to the Interstate Commerce Commission, filling the unexpired term of Commissioner
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113:December 12, 1910 – January 9, 1912
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501:Clements graduated from
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347:Mary Wilson Hill Parks
316:Lizzie Eleanor Dulaney
208:from the 44th District
124:Martin Augustine Knapp
93:Robert William Everett
81:William Harrell Felton
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393:Years of service
167:Walter Lawrence Bragg
1100:"Compulsion favored"
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647:Cave Hill Cemetery,
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142:Commissioner of the
99:4th Chairman of the
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644:Edgar Erastus Clark
640:William Howard Taft
566:In 1891, President
519:La Fayette, Georgia
515:admitted to the bar
458:U.S. Representative
136:Charles Azro Prouty
1078:The New York Times
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962:The New York Times
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934:The New York Times
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476:Early life
357:Allegiance
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239:1846-02-12
490:Civil War
396:1864–1865
342:Parent(s)
219:1877-1880
215:In office
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