Born: January 8, 1890
Bowling Green, Missouri

Died: July 13, 1954
Gloucester, Massachusetts

Bennet Champ Clark

Associate Justice, U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia (now U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit)

Nominated by Harry S Truman on September 12, 1945, to a seat vacated by Thurman W. Arnold. Confirmed by the Senate on September 24, 1945, and received commission on September 28, 1945. Service terminated on July 13, 1954, due to death.

Education:

University of Missouri, B.A., 1913
George Washington University Law School, LL.B., 1914

Professional Career:

Parliamentarian, U.S. House of Representatives, 1913-1917
U.S. Army lieutenant colonel, 1917-1919
Private practice, St. Louis, Missouri, 1919-1932
U.S. senator from Missouri, 1933-1945

University of Missouri and the State Historical Society of Missouri Western Historical Manuscript Collection, Columbia, Mo.

  • Champ Clark and Bennett Champ Clark papers, 1853-1973.
  • 1,442 folders and 30 vols.; finding aid; collection contains correspondence, journals, speeches, writings, financial and legal documents, scrapbooks, and clippings.
  • Dwight H. Brown letters, 1937-1940; 23 folders; correspondence.
  • Russell Lee Dearmont papers, 1929-1965; 5,323 folders; correspondence.
  • Guy B. Park papers, 1932-1937; 24.2 linear ft.; correspondence.
  • John C. Parrish papers, 1877-1954; 515 folders and 8 vols.; finding aid; correspondence.
  • James Edward Ruffin papers, 1929-1965; 33 folders (ca. 375 items); political correspondence.

University of Georgia, Athens, Ga.

  • Shannon Clay Douglass papers, 1928-1951; .1 linear ft.; finding aid; correspondence

Missouri Historical Society, St. Louis, Mo.

  • Homer Bassford correspondence, 1890-1934; ca. 145 items; correspondence.
  • Geneva Crumb papers, 1860-1956; ca. 75 items; correspondence.

St. John’s University, Jamaica, N.Y.

  • American Friends of Irish Neutrality records, 1938-1941; 2 cubic ft.; correspondence

Syracuse University, Syracuse, N.Y.

  • Charles F. Johnson papers, 1899-1959; 50 linear ft.; finding aid; correspondence
Judges of the D.C. Circuit Courts