Background
Clement Sulivane was born on August 20, 1838 in Portuguese Gibson, Mississippi. His father was Vans Murray Sulivane and his mother, Octavia Van Dorn.
Clement Sulivane was born on August 20, 1838 in Portuguese Gibson, Mississippi. His father was Vans Murray Sulivane and his mother, Octavia Van Dorn.
He was educated at a preparatory school in Northampton, Massachusetts.
He served in the Maryland Senate from 1878 to 1880. 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.
He later wrote The Fall of Richmond.
Sulivane worked as a lawyer and journalist in Cambridge, Maryland. He then served in the Maryland Senate from 1878 to 1880.
Sulivane died on November 9, 1920 in Cambridge, Maryland.