Dan Clemens
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Dan Clemens is a former Republican
Republican Party (United States)
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 member of the Missouri State Senate. He currently resides in Marshfield, Missouri
Marshfield, Missouri
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He was born in Webster County, Missouri
Webster County, Missouri
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, and educated in the schools of Marshfield, where he was an active member of Future Farmers of America. He later went to the University of Missouri
University of Missouri
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, where he was elected to the MU Senate, and obtained a masters degree in agriculture there. He is the owner and operator of a third-generation family farm where he raises row crops.

He attends the First Baptist Church, and has served on the Soil and Water District Commission, the Agriculture Advisory Commission, and a farmer representative on the James River Partnership. He has also served as president of the Marshfield School Board and the Webster Electric Co-op Foundation Board, and as state corporte board member of the Missouri Farmer's Association.

He was first elected to the Missouri State Senate in 2002. Due to Missouri term limit restrictions he was ineligible to run again in 2010.
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