Clarence Clifton Young
Clarence Clifton "Cliff" Young, known as C. Clifton Young, was a United States congressman from Nevada.
A Republican, Young was elected to the U.S. House of Representatives from the state's at-large district in 1952 and re-elected in 1954. He won the Republican nomination for the United States Senate in 1956 but was defeated by incumbent Democrat Alan Bible in a close race.
Young later served in the Nevada Senate, from 1966 to 1980, and on the Nevada Supreme Court from 1985 to 2002, including a stint as chief justice. He also served as president of the National Wildlife Federation. Young died in Reno, Nevada in 2016 at the age of 93.
