ASSOCIATE JUSTICE TOM C. CLARK - FIRST DAY COVER SIGNED CO-SIGNED BY: RAMSEY CLARK - HFSID 327946

TOM C. CLARK and RAMSEY CLARK
First Day Cover honoring Chief Justice Charles Evans Hughes signed by the Associate Justice Tom C. Clark and Attorney General Ramsey Clark
First Day Cover signed: "Tom C. Clark", "Ramsey Clark", in blue ink, 6½x3¾. First Day Cover honoring the 100th Anniversary of Charles Evans Hughes. Special Assistant in the Justice Department (1937-1943) and Assistant Attorney General (1943-1945) under FDR, TOM C. CLARK (1899-1977) was appointed Attorney General by Truman in 1945 and Associate Justice of the Supreme Court in 1949. When his son RAMSEY CLARK (1927-2021) was appointed Attorney General by President Lyndon B. Johnson in 1967, Tom C. Clark resigned as Associate Justice of the Supreme Court to avoid any possible conflict of interest. Ramsey, who served as Attorney General until the end of Johnson's term in 1969, was an opponent of the Vietnam War and has always been a proponent of civil rights. He founded the International Action Center, a nationwide anti-war organization, and he has faced criticism for his defense of such clients as Saddam Hussein. Clark, who joined Hussein's defense team in 2004, returned to Iraq in November 2005 to protest the Iraqi Tribunal that was trying Hussein, and he was ejected from the proceedings in November 2006 after he told the judge that the trial was a travesty. Lightly toned. Corners slightly worn. Fine condition.