Clement Conger

Clement Conger
Clement E. “Clem” Conger

White House Curator
In office 1970–1990
President	Richard Nixon Gerald Ford Jimmy Carter Ronald Reagan George H. W. Bush
Preceded by	James R. Ketchum
Succeeded by	Rex Scouten

Personal details
Born	(1912-10-15)October 15, 1912 Harrisonburg, Virginia
Died	January 11, 2004(2004-01-11) (aged 91) Delray Beach, Florida

Clement Ellis Conger (October 15, 1912 – January 11, 2004) was an American museum curator. He served as curator of the U.S. State Department's Diplomatic Reception Rooms from 1961 to 1990, and also as curator of the White House from 1970 to 1990.^[1]^[2]

Life

John Quincy Adams State Drawing Room, Diplomatic Reception Rooms, U.S. Department of State. Conger assembled most of this furniture and art.

He graduated from Strayer College. He worked as an office manager for the Chicago Tribune, and for U.S. Rubber Co. He was assistant secretary for the Combined Chiefs of Staff, during World War II. He worked for the State Department, and became deputy chief of protocol, from 1958 to 1961.

Works

Clement E. Conger, Mary K. Itsell, Treasures of State: Fine and Decorative Art in the Diplomatic Reception Rooms of the U.S. Department of State, H.N. Abrams, 1991, ISBN 978-0-8109-3911-0

References

↑ Files, John (January 13, 2004). "Clement Conger, 91, Curator Who Beautified Federal Halls". The New York Times.
↑ Kempster, Norman (August 7, 1990). "Insider : He Took Charge of a Shabby State Department : Clement Conger is his name and furnishing is his game. For the last 30 years, he has made sure that foreign VIP's like what they see in Washington D.C". Los Angeles Times.

External links

Reminiscences of Clement Conger : oral history, 1972., Columbia University
Constance M. Greiff (1987). Independence: the creation of a national park. University of Pennsylvania Press. ISBN 978-0-8122-8047-0.
http://leg1.state.va.us/cgi-bin/legp504.exe?041+ful+SJ187+pdf
https://web.archive.org/web/20111012205352/http://thenewnixon.org/2009/10/05/pat-nixon-and-the-golden-age-of-the-white-house/
http://sackheritage.com/articles/articles.php?articleID=13

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