Early Years and Family
Clyde Fant was a native of Linden in Cass County, Texas. He was one of six children of Mr. and Mrs. John Preston Fant. John Fant was a cotton gin owner and a onetime Texas state legislator. Fant graduated in 1925 from the former Marshall (Texas) College, now East Texas Baptist University. He taught school for a year in Blocker, a since abandoned community near Marshall, the seat of Harrison County. He then worked for a lumber company in east Texas and was thereafter associated with Southwestern Gas and Electric Company. He was an executive with Interstate Electric Company, with seven years of service with the firm, when he was transferred to Shreveport.
Fant was married to the former Margaret Moos (born 1909), and they had two sons, Dr. Clyde E. Fant, Jr., Th.D. (born 1934), a Baptist clergyman and author of the "Great Preaching" series, and John Frank Fant (born 1937).
Dr. Clyde Fant Jr., is a former pastor in Ruston and former professor of preaching at Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary in Fort Worth. He is professor-emeritus at Stetson University in DeLand, Florida.
John Frank "Jack" Fant received his Bachelor of Arts degree from Baylor University in Waco, Texas, and in 1962 a law degree from Louisiana State University Law Center in Baton Rouge. On September 4, 1971, he was appointed to serve as Judge over the First Judicial District, Division "D", in Shreveport to fill the vacancy created by the retirement of William F. Woods. Upon leaving the bench, Jack Fant relocated to Huntsville, Texas, where he took a position as an Inmate Legal Services attorney with the Texas Department of Criminal Justice (then known as the Texas Department of Corrections). He was later promoted to an assistant director over the State Counsel for Offenders (then the Inmate Legal Services) and served in that capacity for several years. In 2002, his employment was terminated after the Department of Criminal Justice recognized that he did not hold a Texas law license. On May 3, 2004, a Walker County jury found Fant guilty of perjury. He did not appeal. (Cause Number 02-1701, Walker County Court At Law). He remains in private practice in Huntsville.
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