Early years Travers Clement was born around 1900 and lived in
Los Gatos, California during the 1930s, where he was an active member of the
Socialist Party of California and the
Newspaper Guild.
Political career In 1928, Clement was named the national publicity director of the
American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), a position which he retained through 1929. In that year, he became secretary of the National
Mooney-
Billings Committee. He remained an active member of the executive board of the ACLU's local committee in
San Francisco. 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 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. When Executive Secretary
Roy E. Burt resigned early in April 1939, the NEC named Clement as the new head of day-to-day operations of the organization. ==Footnotes==