Charles Asa Clough Jr. (April 8, 1903 - September 9, 1961) was an American prelate of the Episcopal Church who served as the sixth Bishop of Springfield between 1948 and 1961.
He was educated at Phillips Academy, and then at Yale University from where he earned a Bachelor of Arts in 1926.
[1] Clough was ordained deacon in June 1929 and priest in December 1929 by Bishop Charles Lewis Slattery of Massachusetts.
He also served as a member of the diocesan council, board of examining chaplains, and vice-president of the department of Christian social relations.
He was then consecrated on September 21, 1948, in St Paul's Cathedral by Bishop Benjamin F. P. Ivins of Milwaukee.