When Clinton A. Craig was born on 18 August 1922, in Alabama, United States, his father, Pate McKinley Craig, was 22 and his mother, Maude Belle Emerson, was 19. He lived in Election Precinct 7 Pleasant Grove, Limestone, Alabama, United States for about 10 years. He died on 22 June 1994, in Madison, Madison, Alabama, United States, at the age of 71, and was buried in Huntsville Memory Gardens, Huntsville, Madison, Alabama, United States.