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Best original story: Frances Marion (The Champ...
JOHN QUINCY ADAMS-Bennett Champ Clark-Little, Brown...
Like his subject, Biographer Clark is the son of a famed father. While the late great Champ Clark was Speaker, young Bennett practically grew up in the House of Representatives. Speaker Clark advised him to be a Missouri farmer. Instead he studied law in Washington, served four years under his father as House parliamentarian. In 1917 he went to War, rose to a colonelcy in the A. E. F. As much to Col. Clark as to any other man has gone credit for the initiation of the American Legion in Paris shortly after the Armistice. Back in St. Louis...
Missouri. To succeed Harry Bartow Hawes, retiring voluntarily from the Senate to work for wild life, Democrats nominated Bennett Champ Clark, 42-year-old son of the late great Speaker of the House. Nominee Clark, militant Wet, was a genuine A. E. F. colonel. He helped found the American Legion in Paris. He practices law in St. Louis. In the primary he beat Charles M. Howell, passive Wet, who lay in a Kansas City hospital with double pneumonia as the result of too strenuous campaigning. His victory was a thumping defeat for Tom Pendergast, Democratic boss of Kansas City, whose...
...Georgia bar in 1895. In 1896 his father died and he, aged 26, was elected to serve out his father's unexpired term. Back in Americus, Ga. he practiced law, served as judge of the city court. In 1911 when the Democrats organized the House and elected Champ Clark Speaker, he was recalled to Washington to act as parliamentarian again. At the Democratic Convention at Baltimore in 1912 he handed clown parliamentary law that resulted in Woodrow Wilson's nomination. That year he was again elected to the House where he has served continuously ever since. In Congress...