John Ray Clemmons (born July 14, 1977) is an American politician from the state of Tennessee.
[6][2] In 2014, Clemmons defeated incumbent Gary Odom, for the 55th district in the Tennessee House of Representatives in the Democratic primary with 54% of the vote.
[11] In 2022, Clemmons was rated 92% by NORML (National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws).
[12] In January 2022, Clemmons criticized the McMinn County school board's 10-0 decision to remove the Pulitzer Prize-winning Holocaust novel Maus from its curriculum for 8th grade English classes.
Clemmons called the decision counterproductive, saying that without access to the personal accounts of survivors of the Holocaust, children will lose empathy for others.