Editing C. C. Young (section)

==Biography==
[[File:Clement C. Young, 1911.jpg|thumb|left|Young as a [[California State Assembly|State Assemblymember]] in 1911.|150px]]
Born in [[Lisbon, New Hampshire]], Young moved to [[California]] at an early age, and graduated from the [[University of California, Berkeley]] in 1892. After his graduation, Young embarked on a career as a [[Secondary education in the United States|high school]] teacher, teaching in [[Santa Rosa, California|Santa Rosa]] from 1892 to 1893 and then at [[Lowell High School (San Francisco)|Lowell High School]] in [[San Francisco]] from 1893 to 1906, heading the school's [[English studies|English department]]. While at Lowell, Young actively participated in the [[National Education Association]], attending and speaking at its conferences, including giving a speech entitled "The Use of a Library" at the association's conference in [[Los Angeles]] in 1899, arguing for greater cooperation between public schools and public libraries.<ref>{{cite book |title=Journal of Proceedings and Addresses of the Thirty-eighth Annual Meeting held at Los Angeles, California July 11–14, 1899 |location=Los Angeles |publisher=[[National Education Association]] |year=1899 }}</ref> Students at Lowell popularly nicknamed Young "C-Square," due to his initializing of his first and middle names, Clement Calhoun.<ref name="Governor C. C. Young">{{cite web |url=http://governors.library.ca.gov/26-Young.html|title=Governor C. C. Young|publisher=[[California State Library]]|year=2007 |access-date=2007-09-26}}</ref> In 1904, Young, along with [[Charles Mills Gayley]], published ''The Principles and Progress of English Poetry''.<ref>{{cite book |author1=Gayley, Charles M.  |author2=C. C. Young|title=English Poetry Its Principles and Progress with Representative Masterpieces and Notes |location=New York |publisher=Kessinger Publishing, LLC |year=2005 |orig-year=1904 |oclc=3522087}}</ref> published and distributed by the [[Macmillan Publishers|Macmillan Company]].

While teaching, he established his home in [[Berkeley, California|Berkeley]], where he lived until his death, except for the years he served as governor.

Young was a close friend of realtor and conservationist [[Duncan McDuffie]], and worked for Mason-McDuffie, a [[real estate]] general partnership based in Berkeley. Young would work or consult for Mason-McDuffie until 1944. He also helped McDuffie, who had served as president of the [[Save the Redwoods League]] and [[Sierra Club]], establish the State Parks system upon his election as governor.

After his departure from Lowell in 1906, Young became involved in state politics. In 1908, he was elected to the [[California State Assembly]] for the district that included Berkeley. <!-- Searching for history indicating the number of the district: you can help --> In the Assembly, Young became a political ally of governor [[Hiram Johnson]] and quickly rose through the chamber's ranks, becoming [[Speaker of the California State Assembly|Assembly Speaker]] in 1913. In the following year's legislative elections, Young was elected as a member of the [[Progressive Party (United States, 1912)|Progressive Party]]. His flirtation with the party lasted for a single term before its dissolution in 1916 and he quickly returned to Republican ranks, though he remained sympathetic to the [[Progressivism in the United States|Progressive movement]] for much of the rest of his political career.

In the [[1918 California lieutenant gubernatorial election|1918 general elections]], Young won the race for [[Lieutenant Governor of California]], a position to which he was re-elected in [[1922 California lieutenant gubernatorial election|1922]]. In the [[1920 United States presidential election|1920 U.S. presidential election]], Young was a member of the [[United States Electoral College|Electoral College]].<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.joincalifornia.com/candidate/6574|title=C. C. Young, Republican|publisher=JoinCalifornia.org|year=2007 |access-date=2007-09-26}}</ref>

By 1926, frustration within inner Republican ranks with the fiscally conservative governorship of [[Friend Richardson]] had reached its zenith. In the gubernatorial [[Partisan primary|primary election]], Progressive Republicans overcame conservative and corporate opposition to win the nomination for Young, knocking Richardson out of the general election.<ref name="DeBow, Ken and John C. Syer 2003">{{cite book |author1=DeBow, Ken |author2=John C. Syer |title=Power and Politics in California |location=New York |publisher=Longman |year=2003 |isbn=0-321-08975-8 |url-access=registration |url=https://archive.org/details/powerpoliticsinc00debo }}</ref> In the [[California gubernatorial election, 1926|1926 general election]] campaign, Young earned vocal support from former governor [[Hiram Johnson]] and prominent banker [[Amadeo Giannini]]. Young won in a landslide, garnering 71.3 percent of the vote and crushing his rivals, who included [[United States Democratic Party|Democrat]] [[Justus S. Wardell]] and [[Socialist Party of America|Socialist]] author [[Upton Sinclair]].<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.joincalifornia.com/election/1926-11-02|title=November 2, 1926 General Election results|publisher=JoinCalifornia.org |date=1926-11-02 |access-date=2007-09-26}}</ref>