Clarence Joseph Morley (February 9, 1869 – November 15, 1948) was the 24th Governor of Colorado from 1925 to 1927, serving one two-year term.

He was a member of the Ku Klux Klan which was an important force in Colorado politics during the 1920s and largely responsible for the division of the Republican and Democratic votes that enabled him to take office.

[4] The Center for Colorado & the West at the Auraria Library wrote: His vitriol toward all things un-American was thinly veiled as an attack on Catholics, and further, on immigration.

His goal wasn’t simply to eliminate the use of demon alcohol by banning the use of sacramental wine; it was to stop key elements of Catholic practice, thus the religion itself.

He agitated for the University of Colorado to fire all non-Protestant (that is, Catholic and Jewish) professors.