Clyde L. Herring

Clyde LaVerne Herring (May 3, 1879 – September 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. He was born in 1879 and raised in Jackson County, Michigan, where he attended public schools. 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. In 1897, at age 18, he moved to Detroit, Michigan and became a jewelry clerk. 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,...