BENNETT "CHAMP" CLARK - TYPED LETTER SIGNED 01/19/1942 - HFSID 34320
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BENNETT "CHAMP" CLARK
Typed Letter signed as US Senator (January 1942)
Typed Letter signed: "Bennett Champ Clark" as US Senator,
1 page, 8x10½. Washington, D.C., 1942 January 19. On letterhead of
the Senate Finance Committee to Edward Duncan, Jacksonville, Florida. In
full: "I have your letter of January 10 and am very glad indeed to send
you my autograph. With kind regards I am, Yours very sincerely". Joel
Bennett "Champ" Clark (1890-1951) was the son of James Beauchamp "Champ" Clark,
Speaker of the US House of Representatives who narrowly lost the Democratic
Presidential nomination to Woodrow Wilson in 1912. Joel Bennett Clark served
as parliamentary of the US House (1913-1917), but this was not nepotism; he
was an expert on parliamentary procedures and wrote manuals on the subject. He
joined the US Army during World War I, rising to the rank of Colonel (and
hence is buried in Arlington National Cemetery. Bennett Champ Clark
represented Missouri in the US Senate for two terms (1933-1945) and was
Associate Justice of the US Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia from
1945 until his death. Normal mailing folds. Paper and adhesive residue
(previous mounting) on verso at top edge (some show-through). Lightly toned and
creased. Otherwise, fine condition.
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