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Clement Calhoun Young (28 April 1869-24 December 1947) was the Republican Governor of California from 4 January 1927 to 6 January 1931, succeeding Friend Richardson and preceding James Rolph.

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Clement Calhoun Young was born in Lisbon, New Hampshire in 1869, and he worked as a high school teacher in Santa Rosa, California from 1892 to 1893 and in San Francisco from 1893 to 1906. Young established his home in Berkeley, and he served in the State Assembly from 1909 to 1919, as a Republican from 1909 to 1914, as a Progressive from 1914 to 1916, and as a Republican after 1914. Young served as Lieutenant Governor from 1919 to 1927, serving under the conservative Republican Friend Richardson before winning the governorship in 1926 with the backing of progressive Republicans. He supported the financing of the state highway system through a fuel tax rather than by state bonds, more clearly defined roles for the State Board of Education and the California State Superintendent of Public Instruction to eliminate conflicting duties, upholding the direct primary, and the creation of penal facilities specifically for convicted females. In 1929, he signed the law creating the California Highway Patrol, and he angered progressives by approving the merger of Amadeo Giannini's Bank of Italy with Bank of America and by repealing constitutional restrictions on corporations in 1930. He lost renomination that same year, and he died in Berkeley in 1947.

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