Bennett Champ Clark

Joel Bennett Clark

Joel Bennett Clark , also known as Bennett Champ Clark (*  8. January 1890 in Bowling Green , Pike County , Missouri ; †  13. July 1954 in Gloucester , Massachusetts ) was an American politician of the Democratic Party .

Life

Bennett Clark was the son of Champ Clark , who was at the top of the Democratic Party at the beginning of the 20th century.

After graduating from the University of Missouri at Columbia in 1912, he successfully studied law at George Washington University Law School . From 1913 to 1917 he was employed as Parliamentarian of the House of Representatives in the administration of the US House of Representatives . After his return from the First World War , in which he had made it to the rank of colonel , he began to practice as a lawyer.

Senator and federal judge

In 1932 he was elected to the US Senate for Missouri . He succeeded the resigned Senator Harry B. Hawes . In 1938 he was confirmed by the voters; however, he did not succeed in re-election in 1944. Clark caused most of the stir when he declared in the Senate in January 1944 that the Japanese Emperor Hirohito should be hanged as a war criminal .

From 1945 until his death in 1954, Clark served as a judge on the District of Columbia Federal Court of Appeals . He was buried in Arlington National Cemetery.

Web links

• Bennett Champ Clark in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)

• Bennett Champ Clark in the database of Find a Grave (English)