Clement Sulivane

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| name =Clement Sulivane

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| birth_date =August 20, 1838

| birth_place =Port Gibson, Claiborne County, Mississippi, U.S.

| death_date =November 9, 1920

| death_place =Cambridge, Dorchester County, Maryland, U.S.

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| occupation = Lawyer, politician

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| spouse =Delia Bayly Hayward

| children = Earl Van Dorn Sulivane
Vans Murray Sulivane
Ruth Sulivane

| parents =Vans Murray Sulivane
Octavia Van Dorn

| relatives =Earl Van Dorn (uncle)
William Vans Murray (uncle)
Peter Aaron Van Dorn (maternal grandfather)

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| allegiance = {{Flag|Confederate States of America}} (1861–1865)

| branch = Confederate States Army

| serviceyears = 1861–1865

| rank = Aide-de-camp (CSA)

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Clement Sulivane (1838–1920) was an American Confederate soldier, lawyer, journalist and politician. He served in the Maryland Senate from 1878 to 1880.

Early life

Clement Sulivane was born on August 20, 1838, in Port Gibson, Mississippi.{{cite web|url=http://www.collinsfactor.com/oldsite/other/clementsulivaneBio.htm|title=Clement Sulivane Biography|publisher=|accessdate=31 July 2016}} His father was Vans Murray Sulivane and his mother, Octavia Van Dorn. His maternal grandfather was Peter Aaron Van Dorn (1773–1837).{{cite web|url=http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~msclaib3/PeterVanDorn.htm|title=Claiborne County MSGenWeb|publisher=|accessdate=31 July 2016}} One of his uncles was Earl Van Dorn.Linda Gupton, Seasons in the South: The Lives Involved in the Death of General Van Dorn, AuthorHouse, 2013, p. 97 [https://books.google.com/books?id=iPbkDasrI7oC&dq=Clement+Sulivane&pg=PA100] Another uncle was William Vans Murray.

He was educated at a preparatory school in Northampton, Massachusetts. He attended Princeton University in Princeton, New Jersey, and graduated from the University of Virginia in Charlottesville, Virginia, in 1857. He studied the Law, and was admitted to the bar in 1860.

During the American Civil War of 1861–1865, he served in the Confederate States Army as an aide-de-camp to his uncle, Earl Van Dorn.Myron J. Smith, Jr., The CSS Arkansas: A Confederate Ironclad on Western Waters, Jefferson, North Carolina: McFarland & Company, 2011, p. 205 [https://books.google.com/books?id=H-7pwVEncSEC&dq=Clement+Sulivane&pg=PA205] He later wrote The Fall of Richmond.

Career

Sulivane worked as a lawyer and journalist in Cambridge, Maryland. He then served in the Maryland Senate from 1878 to 1880.{{cite web|url=http://msa.maryland.gov/msa/speccol/sc3500/sc3520/012800/012888/html/msa12888.html|title=Clement Sulivane, MSA SC 3520-12888|publisher=|accessdate=31 July 2016}}