Clark, Bennett Champ, 1890-1954

LC control no.	n 85337434
Descriptive conventions	rda
Personal name heading	Clark, Bennett Champ, 1890-1954 *Browse this term in* LC Authorities or the LC Catalog
Variant(s)	Clark, Joel Bennett, 1890-1954
Birth date	18900108
Death date	19540713
Place of birth	Bowling Green, Mo.
Place of death	Gloucester, Mass.
Affiliation	University of Missouri George Washington University. Law School United States. Congress. House. Office of the Parliamentarian United States. Army United States. Congress. Senate Smithsonian Institution. Board of Regents United States. Court of Appeals (District of Columbia Circuit) Democratic Party (U.S.)
Profession or occupation	Legislators Lawyers Judges male
Found in	NUCMC data from Univ. of Mo.-Columbia Libr., Western Hist. Ms. Coll. and St. Hist. Soc. of Mo. Mss. for Clark, C. Papers, 1853-1973 (Clark, Bennett Champ, 1890-1954; full name: Joel Bennett Clark; lawyer, judge, and U.S. senator, of Missouri) Who was Who Amer., 1951-1960 (Clark, Bennett Champ; b. 1890; d. 1954) His John Quincy Adams, 1932 title page (by Bennett Champ Clark) Bio. dir. of the U.S. Congress website, Sept. 6, 2009 (Clark, 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.)
Associated language	eng