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...choose the convention keynoter. To begin with, there were polite mentions of 17 possible candidates for the job. but soon the selection narrowed down to three: Minnesota's Fair-Dealing Senator Hubert Humphrey, Oklahoma's stem-winding Senator Bob Kerr (keynoter in 1944). Tennessee's Frank Clement, 36, youngest governor...
Eager friends of Border-Stater Clement moved in fast on behalf of their man. Clement, quietly staked out in the Stevenson camp (to the disgust of Fellow Tennessean Estes Kefauver), was generally acceptable to both North and South because of his "local-level" approach to school desegregation. Far more important than these attitudes was the fact that Boy Wonder Clement is a golden-throated political evangelist with an inexhaustible gift for fervent oratory (see box) and surefire TV appeal...
After the committee had wrangled for 2½ hours, Paul Butler-who had backed Kerr-came out of the meeting to announce that Frank Clement had won the keynote spot. In Nashville, "Guv'nah Frank" tore up a telegram of congratulations he had prepared for Bob Kerr, allowed happily as how "we've had more telegrams and telephone messages on this than when we were re-elected governor...
Chosen to deliver the keynote address at the Democratic National Convention in Chicago on Aug. 13: Tennessee's Governor Frank Goad Clement...
Tennessee (32): Probably a courtesy call for Tennessee's Estes Kefauver on the first ballot, then a majority shift, behind Governor Frank Clement, to Adlai Stevenson...