Clifford F. Hood*
Class of 1954
- President United States Steel Corporation
No one else can tell you what you can do. Set your goal, chart your course, and do your very best.
Clifford Hood was born on a farm near Monmouth, Illinois. He began working at the age of 10 as a water boy for a threshing crew. He entered the steel industry in 1917 as an operating clerk at American Steel and Wire Company in Worcester, Massachusetts.
After serving in World War I, he returned to American Steel and Wire as a foreman, eventually becoming assistant superintendent and then superintendent of the South Works. Later he was named manager of the firm's entire district operations in Worcester. He became president of U.S. Steel Corporation; American Steel and Wire; and Carnegie-Illinois, an American Steel and Wire subsidiary.