He is best remembered as an assistant to Angelica Balabanoff in the writing of her memoirs and for his tenure as the National Executive Secretary of the Socialist Party of America beginning in April 1939.
Travers Clement lived in Los Gatos, California during the 1930s, where he was active in the local organization of the Socialist Party of America.
[1] In 1928, Clement was named the national publicity director of the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), a position which he retained through 1929.
Clement was elected to the governing National Executive Committee of the Socialist Party at the April 1938 convention of the organization held in Kenosha, Wisconsin.
[1] When Executive Secretary Roy E. Burt resigned early in April 1939, the NEC named Clement as the new head of day-to-day operations of the organization.