page_title: Clement Conger
section_title: Life
hierarchical_section_title: Clement Conger / Life
caption_attribution_description: English: John Quincy Adams State Drawing Room, Diplomatic Reception Rooms, Harry S. Truman Building, U.S. Department of State, Washington, D.C.
context_page_description: Clement Ellis Conger was an American museum curator and public servant. He served as director of the U.S. Department of State Office of Fine Arts, where in that role he worked as curator of both the Diplomatic Reception Rooms and Blair House. He also served as Curator of the White House, at the pleasure of Presidents Nixon, Ford, Carter, and Reagan. Prior to working as a curator, Conger served as a Foreign Service Officer, as the Deputy Chief of Protocol of the United States and as the Assistant Secretary of the Combined Chiefs of Staff.
context_section_description: He graduated from Strayer College. He worked as an office manager for the Chicago Tribune, and for U.S. Rubber Co. He was assistant secretary for the Combined Chiefs of Staff, during World War II.
  He worked for the State Department, and became deputy chief of protocol, from 1958 to 1961.
caption: John Quincy Adams State Drawing Room, Diplomatic Reception Rooms, U.S. Department of State. Conger assembled most of this furniture and art.
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