Clement Clay Shorter
American politician
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Clement Clay Shorter (February 1, 1856-June 16,1890) was a politician in Alabama who served as Speaker of the Alabama House of Representatives.
Named after his father's close friend Clement Claiborne Clay Jr.,[1] he was born in Eufaula to a family that was prominent in the politics of Alabama and Georgia. His uncle was Alabama governor John Gill Shorter and his father, Eli Sims Shorter, was a U.S. congressman and colonel in the Confederate Army during the American Civil War. He graduated from the University of Alabama and became a lawyer.[2]
He represented Barbour County for three terms in the Alabama House.[3] He served as Speaker of the Alabama House of Representatives in 1888. In December 9, 1890 he was memorialized in the Alabama House.[4] The University of Alabama Libraries have an April 23, 1880 letter he wrote to Mrs. H. D. Clayton (Victoria Virginia Clayton).[5]