# Travers Clement

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'''Travers Clement''' ({{circa}} 1900 – May 4, 1977)<ref>{{cite news |title=TRAVERSE CLEMENTS, 77, SOCIALIST PARTY OFFICIAL |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1977/05/09/archives/traverse-clements-77-socialist-party-official.html |access-date=18 June 2025 |work=[The New York Times](/source/The_New_York_Times) |date=9 May 1977 |location=New York}}</ref> was an American [socialist](/source/socialist) writer, politician, and political functionary. He is best remembered as an assistant to [Angelica Balabanoff](/source/Angelica_Balabanoff) in the writing of her memoirs and for his tenure as the National Executive Secretary of the [Socialist Party of America](/source/Socialist_Party_of_America) from 1939 to 1942.

==Biography==
===Early years===
Travers Clement was born around 1900 and lived in [Los Gatos, California](/source/Los_Gatos%2C_California) during the 1930s, where he was an active member of the [Socialist Party of California](/source/Socialist_Party_of_California) and the [Newspaper Guild](/source/Newspaper_Guild).<ref name="Named">"Travers Clement Named National Secretary of SP," ''The Socialist Call,'' vol. 5, no. 7, whole no. 200 (April 29, 1939), pg. 3.</ref>

===Political career===

In 1928, Clement was named the national publicity director of the [American Civil Liberties Union](/source/American_Civil_Liberties_Union) (ACLU), a position which he retained through 1929.<ref name="Named" /> In that year, he became secretary of the National [Mooney](/source/Tom_Mooney)-[Billings](/source/Warren_K._Billings) Committee.<ref name="Named" /> He remained an active member of the executive board of the ACLU's local committee in [San Francisco](/source/San_Francisco).<ref name="Named" />

Clement was the author of several pamphlets for the ACLU, as well as material dealing with the Mooney-Billings case and the Maritime Union. He was also a periodic contributor to ''[The New Republic](/source/The_New_Republic)'' magazine.

Clement was elected to the governing National Executive Committee of the Socialist Party at the April 1938 convention of the organization held in [Kenosha, Wisconsin](/source/Kenosha%2C_Wisconsin).<ref name="Named" /> When Executive Secretary [Roy E. Burt](/source/Roy_E._Burt) resigned early in April 1939, the NEC named Clement as the new head of day-to-day operations of the organization.

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