JAMES B. CLARK

(James Beauchamp Clark)


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The speaker predicted the 19th Amendment to the Constitution, but was off by three years.


Reacting to the appropriations for the Works Progress Administration, a writer quoted the late Speaker:


In the Democratic national convention of 1912, Clark had obtained a majority of the delegate votes and was well on his way to the two thirds necessary for the Presidential nomination. William Jennings Bryan, a close personal friend of Clark's, headed the Nebraska delegation which had already instructed Bryan to vote for Clark. However, in a dramatic repudiation of his old friend, Bryan switched to Woodrow Wilson and turned the tide against Clark, who characterized Bryan as:


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James B. Clark
  • Born: March 7, 1850
  • Died: March 2, 1921
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James Beauchamp Clark was an American politician and attorney who represented Missouri in the United States House of Representatives and served as Speaker of the House from 1911 to 1919.