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History and Government—Congressional Biographies—MissouriJoel Bennett CLARK
(1890-1954)
Senate Years of Service:
1933-1945Party: DemocratCLARK, Joel Bennett, (son
of James Beauchamp Clark), a Senator from Missouri; born in Bowling
Green, Mo., January 8, 1890; attended the public schools at Bowling
Green, Mo., and at Washington, D.C.; graduated from the University
of Missouri at Columbia in 1912, and from the law department of
George Washington University, Washington, D.C., in 1914;
parliamentarian of the United States House of Representatives
1913-1917; admitted to the Missouri bar in 1914; during the First
World War served in the United States Army 1917-1919, attaining the
rank of colonel; commenced the practice of law in St. Louis, Mo.,
in 1919; author and compiler of several manuals on parliamentary
law; elected as a Democrat to the United States Senate in 1932 for
the term commencing March 4, 1933, and was subsequently appointed
to the Senate to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of
Harry B. Hawes for the term ending March 3, 1933; reelected in 1938
and served from February 3, 1933, to January 3, 1945; unsuccessful
candidate for renomination in 1944; chairman, Committee on
Interoceanic Canals (Seventy-fifth through Seventy-eighth
Congresses); member of the Board of Regents, Smithsonian
Institution 1940-1944; associate justice of the United States Court
of Appeals for the District of Columbia from 1945 until his death
in Gloucester, Mass., July 13, 1954; interment in Arlington
National Cemetery, Arlington, Va.
Bibliography
Dictionary of American Biography; Spencer, Thomas T.
“Bennett Champ Clark and the 1936 Presidential
Campaign.” Missouri Historical Review 75 (January
1981): 197-213.
Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1771-Present
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