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History and Government—Congressional Biographies—Missouri / USJames Beauchamp (Champ) CLARK
(1850-1921)
CLARK, James Beauchamp
(Champ), (father of Joel Bennett Clark), a Representative
from Missouri; born near Lawrenceburg, Anderson County, Ky., March
7, 1850; attended the common schools and Kentucky University at
Lexington; was graduated from Bethany (W.Va.) College in 1873 and
from Cincinnati Law School in 1875; president of Marshall College,
Huntington, W.Va., in 1873 and 1874; admitted to the bar in 1875;
edited a country newspaper and practiced law; moved to Bowling
Green, Pike County, Mo., in 1876; city attorney of Louisiana, Mo.,
and Bowling Green, Mo., 1878-1881; deputy prosecuting attorney and
prosecuting attorney of Pike County 1885-1889; member of the State
house of representatives in 1889 and 1891; delegate to the
Trans-Mississippi Congress at Denver in May 1891; elected as a
Democrat to the Fifty-third Congress (March 4, 1893-March 3, 1895);
unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1894 to the Fifty-fourth
Congress; elected to the Fifty-fifth and to the eleven succeeding
Congresses and served from March 4, 1897, until his death; minority
leader (Sixtieth and Sixty-first Congresses), Speaker of the House
of Representatives (Sixty-second through Sixty-fifth Congresses),
minority leader (Sixty-sixth Congress); unsuccessful candidate for
reelection in 1920 to the Sixty-seventh Congress; chairman of the
Democratic National Convention in 1904; died in Washington, D.C.,
on March 2, 1921; funeral services were held in the Hall of the
House of Representatives; interment in City Cemetery, Bowling
Green, Mo.
Bibliography
Clark, Champ. My Quarter Century of American Politics. 2
vols. New York: Harper, 1920; Morrison, Geoffrey F. “A
Political Biography of Champ Clark.” Ph.D. diss., St. Louis
University, 1972.
Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1771-Present
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