Draft:Gene Clanton

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O. Gene Clanton (1934-2017) was a history professor in the United States. He wrote about the Populism political movement in Kansas.

He was born in Pittsburg, Kansas. He received a Phd from the University of Kansas in Lawrence, Kansas. He became a professor at Washington State University. He retired in 1997.

He wrote the book Kansas Populism: Ideas and Men published in 1969. It details the political leaders in Kansas of the movement. One of the people he wrote about in the book is Mary Elizabeth Lease. The book followed on the work of Walter T. K. Nugent.

Writings

 * Kansas Populism; Ideas and Men University of Kansas (1969)
 * Populism; the Humane Preference in America 1890-1900 (1991)
 * A Common Humanity; Kansas Populism and the Battle for Justice and Equality, 1854-1903 an updated version of ''Kansas Populism (2004), the second update of his dissertation turned book on Populism in Kansas
 * Congressional Populism and the Crisis of the 1890s