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Robert Nelson "Bob" Clement (born September 23, 1943 in Nashville, Tennessee) is a Tennessee politician and a member of the Democratic Party. He is running for Mayor of Nashville in 2007. Image File history File links BobClement. ... Image File history File links BobClement. ... September 23 is the 266th day of the year (267th in leap years). ... Year 1943 (MCMXLIII) was a common year starting on Friday (the link is to a full 1943 calendar). ... Nickname: Music City Location in Davidson County and the state of Tennessee Coordinates: Country United States State Tennessee Counties Davidson County Founded: 1779 Incorporated: 1806 Mayor Bill Purcell (D) Area    - City 526. ... Official language(s) English Capital Nashville Largest city Memphis Largest metro area Nashville Area  Ranked 36th  - Total 42,169 sq mi (109,247 km²)  - Width 120 miles (195 km)  - Length 440 miles (710 km)  - % water 2. ... To meet Wikipedias quality standards, this article or section may require cleanup. ... The Democratic Party is one of two major contemporary political parties in the United States; the other being the Republican Party. ...

Clement was eight years old when his father, Frank G. Clement, was first elected governor of Tennessee. He became enamored of politics at a very early age, and was widely regarded as quite an asset in his father's subsequent gubernatorial campaigns in 1954 and 1962, receiving the nickname "Little Bob", which has never fully left him (he is approximately 5'-5" tall). Frank Goad Clement (June 2, 1920–November 4, 1969) served as governor of the U.S. state of Tennessee from 1953 to 1959 and again from 1963 to 1967. ... Notes 1East was Secretary of State for Tennessee from 1862-1865, appointed by Andrew Johnson, the military governor of the state under Union occupation during the American Civil War. ... Politics is the process by which groups make decisions. ... 1954 (MCMLIV) was a common year starting on Friday of the Gregorian calendar. ... 1962 (MCMLXII) was a common year starting on Monday (the link is to a full 1962 calendar). ... // A nickname is a short, clever, cute, derogatory, or otherwise substitute name for a person or things real name (for example, Bob, Rob, Robby, Robbie, Robi, Bobby, Rab, Bert, Bertie, Butch, Bobbers, Bobert, Beto, Bobadito, and Robban (in Sweden), are all short for Robert). ...

Clement attended the prominent Hillsboro High school in located in the Green Hills neighborhood of Nashville. He went on to attend the University of Tennessee, graduating in 1967. He served in the National Guard from 1969 to 1971 and also served in the reserves until 2001, retiring as a colonel. The University of Tennessee (UT), sometimes called the University of Tennessee, Knoxville (UT Knoxville or UTK), is the flagship institution of the statewide land-grant University of Tennessee public university system. ... 1967 (MCMLXVII) was a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar (the link is to a full 1967 calendar). ... The United States National Guard is a component of the United States Army (the Army National Guard) and the United States Air Force (the Air National Guard). ... Year 1969 (MCMLXIX) was a common year starting on Wednesday (the link is to a full 1969 calendar). ... 1971 (MCMLXXI) was a common year starting on Friday (the link is to a full 1971 calendar). ... 2001 (MMI) was a common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar. ...

Clement considered buying a telephone company while still at UT, but his father refused to lend him the money, an insult he never forgot. However, he did learn quite a bit about the Tennessee Public Service Commission, which regulated phone companies and other utilities. He wanted to get a job on the commission's staff, but chairman Hammond Fowler kept blowing off his requests. When Fowler, who held the East Tennessee seat on the commission, ran for a fourth six-year term in 1972, Clement ran against him in the Democratic primary. Bolstered in part by a televised debate in which he appeared to be young and vibrant while Fowler appeared to be old and doddering, Clement won by an incredible 3-1 margin--the most lopsided defeat of a statewide incumbent in Tennessee history. He overwhelmed Republican nominee Tom Garland in the general election what was otherwise largely a very good year for Republicans in Tennessee (and nationwide) running for major offices. (No Republican was ever elected to the Public Service Commission in Tennessee during its existence, which later played a factor in its abolition more than 20 years later.) At 32, he was (and still is) the youngest person ever elected to statewide office in Tennessee history. The telephone or phone is a telecommunications device which is used to transmit and receive sound (most commonly voice and speech) across distance. ... The Tennessee Public Service Commission was a three-member elected body which regulated private utilities, trucking firms, and railroads within the state of Tennessee. ... East Tennessee is a name given to approximately the eastern third of the state of Tennessee. ... 1972 (MCMLXXII) was a leap year starting on Saturday. ... Debate (North American English) or debating (British English) is a formal method of interactive and position representational argument. ... Federal courts Supreme Court Chief Justice Associate Justices Elections Presidential elections Midterm elections Political Parties Democratic Republican Third parties State & Local government Governors Legislatures State Courts Counties, Cities, and Towns Other countries Politics Portal      For other uses, see Republican Party (disambiguation) or GOP (disambiguation). ...

In 1978, Clement announced he would run for the Democratic nomination for governor. He ran second in the primary behind Knoxville banker Jake Butcher, who had finished second in the Democratic gubernatorial primary four years previously and who had a level of name recognition roughly equal to Clement and, additionally, greater financial resources. (Butcher's total expenditures in running for governor of Tennessee that year exceeded $4,000,000, a then unheard-of amount for a relatively small state. By comparison, Jerry Brown in the same year also spent about $4,000,000 running for re-election as governor of California, a far larger state in both area and population. Butcher nonetheless lost the general election to Republican Lamar Alexander.) 1978 (MCMLXXVIII) was a common year starting on Sunday. ... Knoxville redirects here. ... Jacob Franklin Butcher (sometimes called Jake) (1936 - ) was an American banker. ... Edmund Gerald Jerry Brown, Jr. ... Governors Arnold Schwarzenegger and Gray Davis with President George W. Bush (2003) Seal of the Governor of California (without the Roman numerals designating the governors sequence) See also: List of pre-statehood governors of California, List of Governors of California The Governor of California is the highest executive authority... Andrew Lamar Alexander (born July 3, 1940) is the senior United States Senator from Tennessee and a member of the Republican Party. ...

In 1979, President Jimmy Carter tapped him for an unexpired term on the Board of Directors of the Tennessee Valley Authority. Clement made this office a high-profile position (at this time, the TVA Board had only three members and unlike most similar positions was a full-time job), largely as an opponent of then-TVA Chairman S. David Freeman, who was seen by many (including most TVA employees) as both too environmentalist and insufficiently pro-nuclear. For the Smashing Pumpkins song, see 1979 (song). ... The presidential seal was used by President Hayes in 1880 and last modified in 1959 by adding the 50th star for Hawaii. ... James Earl Jimmy Carter, Jr. ... In relation to a company, a director is an officer of the company charged with the conduct and management of its affairs. ... The introduction to this article is too long. ... Bold textHello ...

In 1982, Clement announced his candidacy for the 7th Congressional District, his family's home district. The seat was being vacated by five-term incumbent Republican Robin Beard, who was leaving it to run against Senator Jim Sasser, and had been renumbered from the 6th in redistricting. Clement defeated Bartlett banker Harold Byrd for the Democratic nomination for Beard's former seat but was narrowly defeated in the general election by Don Sundquist, a businessman from Memphis who would later become a two-term governor. It was the first (and as of the 2004 elections, only) time that a Democrat had come within single digits in the 7th District since it fell into Republican hands in 1972. Clement said years later that he'd made a mistake by trying to run the same kind of campaign that his father had in his glory days. 1982 (MCMLXXXII) was a common year starting on Friday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Robin Leo Beard, Jr. ... Seal of the U.S. Senate The Senate is one of the two chambers of the bicameral United States Congress, the other being the House of Representatives. ... This article or section does not cite its references or sources. ... Bartlett is a city located in Shelby County, Tennessee. ... A general election is an election in which all or most members of a given political body are up for election. ... Donald Kenneth Sundquist (born March 15, 1936) was Governor of Tennessee from 1995 to 2003. ... Flag Seal Nickname: The River City, The Bluff City, M-Town Location Location in Shelby County and the state of Tennessee Coordinates , Government Country State Counties United States Tennessee Shelby County Mayor W. W. Herenton (D) Geographical characteristics Area     City 294. ... 2004 (MMIV) was a leap year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ...

Temporarily out of politics, Clement remained active in Democratic circles. He also had a large network of contacts through his ongoing service in the National Guard. In 1983, Clement became president of Cumberland College, a struggling private junior college 30 miles east of Nashville in Lebanon, Tennessee. This institution, founded in the 1840s, had at one time been a prestigious university but had fallen upon hard times, never fully recovering from the Great Depression and the widespread availability of lower-cost public higher education after World War II. The low point in its problems probably occurred in the early 1960s when it was forced, for financial reasons, to sell its once-renowned law school (which Clement's father had attended) to what is now Samford University. During Clement's tenure, the school reobtained four-year college, and shortly later, full university status, and today Cumberland University is considered still to be on a sound financial footing, largely as a result of Clement's tenure as president. 1983 (MCMLXXXIII) was a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Abraham Lincoln, 16th President of the United States (1861-1865) The majority of this article is about heads of states. ... This institution is unrelated, other than by similarity of name, to the University of the Cumberlands in Williamsburg, Kentucky. ... For the Indian grade 11 and 12 schools, see Junior College A junior college is a two-year post-secondary school whose main purpose is to provide a method of obtaining academic, vocational and professional education. ... For other cities named Nashville, see Nashville (disambiguation). ... Lebanon is a city in Wilson County, Tennessee, in the United States. ... // Events and Trends Technology First use of general anesthesia in an operation, by Crawford Long The first electrical telegraph sent by Samuel Morse on May 24, 1844 from Baltimore to Washington, D.C.. War, peace and politics First signing of the Treaty of Waitangi (Te Tiriti o Waitangi) on February... Representation of a university class, 1350s. ... The Great Depression was an economic downturn which started in 1929 and lasted through most of the 1930s. ... Combatants Major Allied powers: United Kingdom France Soviet Union United States Republic of China and others Major Axis powers: Germany Italy Japan and others Commanders Winston Churchill Charles de Gaulle Joseph Stalin Franklin Roosevelt Chiang Kai-Shek Adolf Hitler Benito Mussolini Hideki Tojo Casualties Military dead: 17,000,000 Civilian... The 1960s decade refers to the years from January 1, 1960 to December 31, 1969, inclusive. ... // A law school is an institution where future lawyers obtain legal degrees. ... Birds-Eye View of the Campus Samford University is a private, coeducational, Baptist-affiliated university located in Homewood, Alabama, (a suburb of Birmingham). ... It has been suggested that this article be split into multiple articles accessible from a disambiguation page. ...

In 1987, 5th District Congressman Bill Boner left his House seat to become mayor of Nashville. Clement, who had moved to Nashville by this time, resigned as president of Cumberland on August 22 to run in the Democratic primary for the balance of Boner's term. He won the nomination over a crowded field, including most prominently Phil Bredesen, future mayor of Nashville and current governor of Tennessee, who finished second. As the Republicans had long since lost interest in a seat they hadn't won since 1875 (Democrats have faced only token opposition since 1972), Clement's victory in the special election of January 19, 1988 was a foregone conclusion. He took office that night, as soon as the results were certified. He was unopposed for a full term in November and was reelected six times against almost no opposition. Clement established himself as one of the leading moderates in the Democratic caucus, and was a cofounder of the Blue Dog Coalition. 1987 (MCMLXXXVII) was a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ... The current boundaries of Tennessee District 5 The 5th Congressional District of Tennessee is a congressional district in central Tennessee. ... William J. Bill Boner (born February 14, 1945) is a Tennessee educator and former Democratic politician. ... The following is a list of the mayors of Nashville, Tennessee since the consolidation of the municipal government with Davidson County, Tennessee, forming the Metropolitan Government of Nashville and Davidson County: 1. ... August 22 is the 234th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (235th in leap years), with 131 days remaining. ... Philip Norman Phil Bredesen (born November 21, 1943) is the 48th Governor of Tennessee, having served since 2003. ... 1875 (MDCCCLXXV) was a common year starting on Friday (see link for calendar). ... 1972 (MCMLXXII) was a leap year starting on Saturday. ... January 19 is the 19th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ... 1988 (MCMLXXXVIII) was a leap year starting on Friday of the Gregorian calendar. ... In politics and religion, a moderate is an individual who holds an intermediate position between two extreme or radical viewpoints. ... Blue Dog Democrats are social and economic conservatives and moderates in the United States Democratic Party. ...

In 2002, when Republican Senator Fred Thompson stated that he had changed his mind regarding his previous announcement that he would run for a second full term, Clement entered the Democratic primary for Thompson's seat. He won the nomination easily, but was defeated in the November general election by former governor Lamar Alexander. Clement remains active in Democratic political circles and University of Tennessee alumni activities. For album titles with the same name, see 2002 (album). ... Fred Dalton Thompson (born August 19, 1942) is an American lawyer, actor and former Republican senator from Tennessee. ... A primary election is an election in which registered voters in a jurisdiction select the candidates who will enter a subsequent election (nominating primary). ... Andrew Lamar Alexander (born July 3, 1940) is the senior United States Senator from Tennessee and a member of the Republican Party. ... An alumn (with a silent n), alum, alumnus, or alumna is a former student of a college, university, or school. ...

Clement is a Southern Baptist, but attends Christ Church, a large charismatic church in Nashville where his brother-in-law L.H. Hardwick is senior pastor. The Southern Baptist Convention (SBC) is a United States-based cooperative ministry agency serving Baptist churches around the world. ... The charismatic movement began with the adoption of certain beliefs typical of those held by Pentecostal Christians —specifically what are known as the biblical charisms of Christianity: speaking in tongues, prophesying, etc. ...

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