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Clyde LaVerne Herring (May 3, 1879September 15, 1945), an American politician and Democrat, served as the 26th Governor of Iowa, and then one of its U.S. Senators, during the last part of the Great Depression and the first part of World War II. ==Personal background== He was born in 1879 and raised in Jackson County, Michigan, where he attended public schools.〔(Biographical Directory of the U.S. Congress - Clyde LaVerne Herring ).〕 His parents farmed until he was 14 years old, the year of the "Panic of 1893," when failing finances made it necessary for them to move to town.〔"Found Health Outdoors: How Clyde Herring Found his Physical Vigor," ''Iowa City Press Citizen'', September 23, 1920 at 1.〕 In 1897, at age 18, he moved to Detroit, Michigan and became a jewelry clerk.〔"(Rural Revelry ), ''Time'' magazine, September 9, 1935.〕 Enlisting in the military, he served during the Spanish–American War as a private in Company D of the Third Michigan Regiment.〔 After the war he moved to Colorado Springs, Colorado, where he engaged in ranching from 1902 to 1906.〔 He then moved to Massena, Iowa, where he farmed for two years (1906–1908).〔 As Time Magazine would recount in a 1935 cover story featuring Herring, "in Detroit he had fixed Henry Ford's watch, thus came to know that rising automobile manufacturer. From 1910 until the distributing system was reshuffled after the War, Clyde Herring was Ford agent for Iowa. By that time he had acquired $3,000,000 worth of Des Moines real estate."〔〔 In 1916–17, he served with the Iowa National Guard on the Mexican border.〔 Returning to civilian life in Des Moines as America entered the First World War, Herring led local fundraising efforts as the chair of the Greater Des Moines Committee, and was invited to Washington to advise the federal government on speeding up production of war supplies.〔"Herring Asked to Give Time to Government," ''Des Moines Daily News'', 1918-05-18, at 3.〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Clyde L. Herring」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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