Marshall University - Chief Justice Yearbook (Huntington, WV)

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CHAMP CLAHK i

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TO THE Honorable Champ Clark, of Missouri Speaker of tin House of Representatives, in nppiveintion of s his »niw to Miirshull College as a teaelier ntul in recognition of the distinction to which In Inis risen as a stati-sinan. we gratefully dedicate this Annual.

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THE HONORABL Champ Clark. Southerner. politician. ami statesman. is an immediate descendant of sturdy Now Kngland stock. Il was Iwm March 7. 18.VI. in Anderson County, Kentucky. Ho was iiluntnl in tin roininon schools of that state, in the t'ni ver.sitv of Kentucky, anil in Itotlniny College. W.-st Virginia, from which College lie was graduated with the highest honors in ls7:t. Shortly afterward he was elected assistant principal «.f Mar-hall College. .Mr. Clark filled his |x siiion in Marshall most accr pin lily to the trustees for one year; then his restless natun' and generous ambitions found in |K»litics a more congenial and promising Held for a young Southerner's talents. Accordingly in 1 74 he turned his Iwwk njion educational work, resigned his |H»ition and In-gun the study of law in t'ineinniiti. Ohio, lie was graduated from tin- Cincinnati l»iw School. after which lie fan si wi-stwanl with tin- avowed purpi.se of never returning east until he came in the enpacitv of a im iiilH-r of the Congress of the t'nited Slat«-s. Mr. Clark went to the state of Kansas, where la- pntc-tie.sl law for a time, then loeatisl in Pike County, Missouri. Kvrii at its iH-ginniiig. his |M litieal cans-r was characterized I'.v lh - earnestm-ss. persistence, ami detcmiination which have won fi.r this Kentucky school la y. young W'wl Virginia edu-eator and college vice-president, a |iosition of |H wcr ami in ttin-iiee in American | olitieal life second only to tluit of thi Pmident of the United States. E CHAMP CLARK Thin present Speaker of tlu House of Hepresnitntives s-Tv-fl li» time a farmer Iwy, rink in a eounliy store. m-w |»a-per editor. eitv attorney, anil |imidrnlial elector, lie was elce-teil to (Vmgn-xs in lfWl anil lias continuously represented tin same district to the present time, lie was imule chairman of tin National I Van. era tie Convention at St. laaiis in 19i»l. ami on April fourth. 1911, railed the Sixtieth National Congress of the I'nited States to onler in extra session, as the fortieth Speaker. Mr. Clark is a Democrat in principle, in |a litienl |»cr»iia-sion. in sentiment, ami in its larger sense, hy nature, being distinctively a man of the |ieoplc ami for the |teople. lie i a lluent anil engaging s|tcaker. a strung ilelatter. a skill'll parliamentarian, a true friend, a charitable enemy, a good husltami, and a typical American eitizen who meets the requirements of ■ statesman of high order. Ilis duties in his new sphere of usefulness are tremendously enlarged hy his promotion to the Speakership. Those wlm know- him prvdirt eontidently for liim a career as S| cakcr wliieli will add largely I to the honors he lias already shared at tie- hands of his follow ( Democrats, and which will retire! end it the great polit- ical laxly over which lie presides, and through it. U|k»ii the American Nation.