Clark, (James Beauchamp) Champ

(1850–1921) U.S. representative; born in Lawrenceburg, Ky. A graduate of Bethany College in West Virginia and of Cincinnati Law School, he moved to Missouri in 1876 where he was a newspaper editor and city attorney in Louisiana and Bowling Green, Ohio, before serving as prosecutor for Pike County (1885–89) and member of the Missouri legislature (1889–91). Elected to Congress (Dem., Mo.; 1893–1921) he served on the powerful Foreign Affairs and Ways and Means Committees, supporting the Spanish-American War, yet opposing annexation of Hawaii. A forcible orator and minority leader, he led the fight to wrest arbitrary control of legislative procedures from the Republican Speaker, Joseph Cannon. Elected Speaker of the House in 1911, he was an enormously popular candidate for president in 1912 who led Woodrow Wilson through 14 ballots at the Democratic Convention.

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The illustrious statesman, Champ Clark, once lived about a mile from the village of Jebigue, in Missouri.

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Louis, roads and highways will be covered, railroad tracks will be swamped, and the Champ Clark Bridge crossing the river will have to close, Pike County, Missouri, Emergency Management Director Al Murry said.

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Burton won bronze at the World Championships in Rio last year while 2006 European champ Clark secured her Games place through qualification results.

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At the Democratic party's nominating convention in Baltimore, Wilson outlasted Missouri Senator Champ Clark and a plethora of lesser candidates, finally earning the nomination on the forty-sixth ballot.

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Northern Ireland's Darren Clarke and Dutchman Martin Lafeber tied for second but delighted champ Clark said: "I'm extremely honoured to win this."

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The Adamses' commitment to independence was expressed by President John Adams, who eschewed party politics to work toward what he called "the greatest good for all." John Quincy was similarly unafraid to put his own convictions ahead of loyalty to a political party or to a member of his family; he followed his father's example so assiduously that one of the son's biographers, Bennett Champ Clark, described him as "the Great Independent of American politics," one who "possessed neither the wiles of the schemer nor the personal attractiveness of the popular leader." In fact, John Quincy was so independent that he broke with his own Federalist Party over a major foreign-policy dispute.

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Bennett Champ Clark of Missouri as the first education bill put forth by a veterans organization.

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He supported Champ Clark for the Democratic nomination, but his real objective was the vice presidential nomination for Thomas R.

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Anderson for allocations beyond what department staff recommended, Corcoran enlisted the active participation of both law partner Worth Clark and Worth's cousin, Bennett Champ Clark, former senator from President Truman's home state of Missouri and a recent appointee to the Federal Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia.

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Republicans Arthur Vandenberg of Michigan and Wallace White of Maine, Democrat Bennett Champ Clark of Missouri, and Progressive Robert LaFollette, Jr.

The politics and poetry of advice and consent: Congress confronts the Roosevelt administration during the State Department Confirmation Incident of 1944

Clark, Champ

Clark, (James Beauchamp) Champ