Artist: Richard Stewart Halstead (born 1947)
Clinton Keith Tomson
TOMSON, CLINTON KEITH (1909–2002), inducted 1996
Like Frank Harding, his partner in the American Livestock Insurance Company, Clint Tomson was born into a family livestock legacy, breeding a top Shorthorn show herd in Kansas. He attended Kansas State University and then began his career as a fieldman at Shorthorn World. After a few years, he was selected to fill the post of Executive Secretary of the American Shorthorn Breeders’ Association (1943–1951), becoming the youngest major breed executive in the nation at the time. Tomson was a world-respected judge at the Palermo Livestock Show, Calgary Stampede, Royal Agricultural Winter Fair, Sydney Royal Easter Show, and the Perth Royal Show. In 1993, he was awarded the Headliner Award from the Livestock Publications Council. His Saddle & Sirloin portrait was commissioned in 1996, about seventy-five years after his uncle, John Ross Tomson, was inducted into the Club.
Source: Saddle & Sirloin Guidebook 2026, p. 190