He is the son of Frank Clemmons, founder of the First Church of God In Christ in Brooklyn, New York.
[5] In 1975, he was a Martin Luther King fellow, and in that capacity, he traveled to West Africa, Nigeria and Ghana.
[1][4] In 1979, he retired as a certified teacher of Spanish to devote full-time to the ministry.
[5] Clemmons is the founder of Miracle Temple Church of God in Christ in Norwalk.
[3] He was elected to the Connecticut House of Representatives in a special election in February 1997 and was re-elected in November 1998[3][5] defeating Republican Jon J. Velez and also re-elected in November 2000.