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Clyde LaVerne Herring (May 3, 1879September 15, 1945), an American Democratic politician who 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, when the Panic of 1893 caused failing finances that made it necessary for them to move to town.

In 1897, at 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.

Herring was the unsuccessful Democratic nominee for governor of Iowa in 1920, losing to Republican Nathan E. Kendall, and for the United States Senate in a 1922 special election, losing to Republican Smith W. Brookhart. In 1936, his fourth year as governor, Herring chose not to run for re election but instead challenged incumbent Republican U. S. Senator L. J. Dickinson. Herring defeated Dickinson by fewer than 36,000 votes. Both senators from Iowa were Democrats for the first time since 1855. His service as senator was slightly delayed to await the end of his term as Iowa's governor. He declared that "radio has no more right to present programs like that than someone has to come knocking on our door and screaming." but Roosevelt and the convention instead nominated fellow Iowan Henry A. Wallace, who had served as Roosevelt's Secretary of Agriculture. Herring served only a single term as senator and failed in his first re election bid. Roosevelt's popularity in Iowa had waned after 1936, and Democratic candidates increasingly lost re election. In addition, disagreements or rivalries between Herring and other leading Iowa Democrats, including fellow Senator Guy M. Gillette, former governor Nelson G. Kraschel, and Vice President Henry Wallace, hampered party unity. Herring was defeated by Iowa's Republican governor, George A. Wilson. Herring was the last of the successful 1932 Democratic candidates in Iowa to lose a re election bid. After serving in the Senate, he returned to the automobile business and was named by Roosevelt as the assistant administrator of the Office of Price Administration, the wartime price regulatory agency. Herring died in Washington, D. C., on September 15, 1945.