Charles C. Clement (November 14, 1815January 11, 1886) was an American carpenter, newspaper publisher, Wisconsin pioneer, and abolitionist activist. He was a member of the Wisconsin Senate, representing Racine County during the 1855 and 1856 sessions. He was an early proprietor of the Racine Journal and played a significant role in the liberation of Joshua Glover. He was also one of dozens of lawmakers in the 1856 session caught up in the La Crosse and Milwaukee Railroad bribery scheme. Biography Charles Clement was born in the town of Newbury, Massachusetts, in November 1815. He was raised and educated in Massachusetts and learned the carpentry trade apprenticing under his father. Working with his father, he went west to Alton, Illinois, where they worked as contractors building several houses and other buildings. During their time in Alton, the Clements witnessed the murder of Elijah Parish Lovejoy and the related riots. The violence had a lasting impression on both Clement and his father. They left Alton soon after, but spoke often about the barbarity of what they had witnessed, and the experience reinforced abolitionist beliefs in Clement and the rest of his family. In 1840, he followed his brother, Stephen, to the village of Southport, in the Wisconsin Territory (now Kenosha, Wisconsin). He worked for a decade as a carpenter and construction contractor, and became involved in local affairs. In 1849, he was the first school superintendent for Kenosha County after its separation from Racine County. In January 1850 he purchased the Southport Telegraph newspaper. He operated and edited the paper on and off for the next two years, collaborating with the previous editor C. Latham Sholes. He then sold the paper to Sholes and another partner in 1852. Clement then moved to the neighboring city of Racine, Wisconsin, where he purchased control of the Racine Advocate newspaper; he only operated the paper for about a year, but that year included the Joshua Glover incident in March 1854. Joshua Glover had been brought to Racine via the Underground Railroad, after escaping from slavery in the south. His presence in Racine became known, however, and his former captor, Bennami Garland, came north under the auspices of the Fugitive Slave Act to reclaim him. Garland seized Glover with the assistance of the U.S. marshal, and Glover was taken from Racine and imprisoned in Milwaukee while his case was being heard. Clement was one of the