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Class Year
1917
Description
Clifford Theo Dotson, LL.B.
Olmstead, Kentucky
Alpha Sigma Phi; Tau Kappa Alpha; President State I.P.A. (3); State Treasurer (4); Debating Team (3); President Prohibition Club (3); Y.M.C.A. Cabinet (2,3,4); Patterson Society; Henry Clay Society; Democratic Club; Jilted Brethren.
"Like the winds of the sea are the winds of fate, As we journey along through life; 'Tis the set of the soul that determines the goal. And not the calm or the strife." If this be true, Dotson will not live in vain.
-The Kentuckian, 1917
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Clifford Theo Dotson (August 24, 1892 - December 9, 1938) was born in Logan County, Kentucky to Andrew Dotson and Nannie Still. Dotson practiced law in Russellville, Kentucky with S.H. Brown for a brief time after graduation. In 1918, he moved to Harlan where he worked as a member of the War Draft Board. He stayed in Harlan after the war and continued to practice law. Dotson later transitioned to insurance work--he formed the Harlan Insurance Agency and worked there until mid-1938 when he became ill. Dotson became ill. This illness lingered and he died later that year at a Baltimore hospital. Dotson married Ada May Dickerson in 1917.
