Clement
Young was born in Lisbon, New Hampshire, on 28th April, 1869. After
graduating from the University of California he taught English at
Lowell High School in San Francisco.
Young
left teaching and entered the real estate business in Berkeley. A
member of the Republican Party Young
won election to the State Assembly. A close friend of Hiram
Johnson, in 1926 Young defeated Governor Friend
Richardson in the Republican
primary.
Young
became Governor of California in 1927. In office he supported Prohibition
and strongly opposed gambling and prostitution. He controversially
refused to pardon Tom Mooney and Warren
Billings, who had been wrongly imprisoned for the bombing which
occurred in San Francisco in 1916.
In
1930 Young lost the nomination to Frank
Merriam and retired as Governor of California in 1931. Clement
Young died
in Berkeley, California, on 24th December, 1947.
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