- David Marston Clough
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David Marston Clough David Marston Clough 13th Governor of Minnesota In office
January 31, 1895 – January 2, 1899Lieutenant Frank A. Day
John L. GibbsPreceded by Knute Nelson Succeeded by John Lind Personal details Born December 27, 1846
Lyme, New Hampshire, U.S.Died August 28, 1924 (aged 77)
Everett, WashingtonPolitical party Republican Spouse(s) Addie Barton Profession lumberman David Marston Clough (December 27, 1846 – August 28, 1924) was an American politician. He served in the Minnesota State Senate from January 1887 to January 1893. He served as the state's Lt. Governor January 4, 1893 to January 31, 1895. He was the 13th Governor of Minnesota from January 31, 1895 to January 2, 1899. He was a Republican.
Born in 1846 in Lyme, New Hampshire, the fourth of fourteen children of New England farmers who resettled near the Rum River, David Clough helped his family eke out a scanty living from the land by raising crops and cutting timber. His boyhood experiences would serve him well as both an entrepreneur and public servant in a state where agriculture and lumber dominated the economy.
Clough's first business venture, a logging operation he founded at 20, lifted him from poverty and launched him on a path toward wealth and political prominence. He moved to Minneapolis in 1872 and was elected to the city council eleven years later and then to the Minnesota Senate. From the senate, he advanced to the office of lieutenant governor under Republican Knute Nelson, whose election to the U.S. Senate moved Clough into the governor's office.
Clough's first administration was notable for the ratification of significant amendments to the state constitution, including those establishing the Minnesota Board of Pardons, withdrawing the right of aliens to vote, and authorizing municipalities to frame "home rule" charters. During his second term, narrowly won in 1896, the legislature raised taxes on several private industries and enacted child-labor laws.
In 1900 the redoubtable railroad magnate James J. Hill urged Clough to establish a lumber operation near Puget Sound. Until his death at age 78, the logger-turned-lumber baron lived in Everett, Washington, where he championed the interests of the mill owners against their employees' unionization efforts.
References
- Biographical information and his gubernatorial records are available for research use at the Minnesota Historical Society.
- Minnesota Legislators Past and Present
Political offices Preceded by
Gideon S. IvesLieutenant Governor of Minnesota
1893 – 1895Succeeded by
Frank A. DayPreceded by
Knute NelsonGovernor of Minnesota
1895 – 1899Succeeded by
John LindGovernors of Minnesota Territorial (1849–1858) State (since 1858) Sibley · Ramsey · Swift · Miller · Marshall · Austin · Davis · Pillsbury · Hubbard · McGill · Merriam · Nelson · Clough · Lind · Van Sant · Johnson · Eberhart · Hammond · Burnquist · Preus · Christianson · Olson · Petersen · Benson · Stassen · Thye · Youngdahl · E. Anderson · Freeman · Andersen · Rolvaag · LeVander · W. Anderson · Perpich · Quie · Perpich · Carlson · Ventura · Pawlenty · DaytonLieutenant Governors of Minnesota Holcombe · Donnelly · Swift · Sherwood · Armstrong · Yale · Barto · Wakefield · Gilman · Rice · Ives · Clough · Day · Gibbs · L. Smith · Jones · Eberhart · E. Smith · Gordon · Burnquist · Sullivan · Frankson · Collins · Nolan · Adams · Arens · Solberg · Petersen · Richardson (acting) · Lindsten · Anderson · Thye · Miller · Anderson · Nelsen · Wright · Rolvaag · Keith · Goetz · Perpich · Olson · Wangberg · Johnson · Dyrstad · Benson · Schunk · Molnau · Solon
Categories:- 1846 births
- 1924 deaths
- People from Grafton County, New Hampshire
- American manufacturing businesspeople
- Governors of Minnesota
- Lieutenant Governors of Minnesota
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- Minnesota Republicans
- Businesspeople in timber
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