more respected and beloved than Mr. Lyman. His name was a guarantee for uprightness of dealing, kindliness, friendship and assistance to people in every walk of life. He possessed great skill in business organization and at the same time retained his native simplicity of character and confidence in human nature. He held a guiding hand toward high and beautiful standards and to all who came in contact with him, his career will ever remain an abiding inspiration.

James Beauchamp Clark

AMES BEAUCHAMP CLARK was born near Frankfort, Anderson County, Kentucky, March 7th, 1850; son of John Hampton and Althea Beauchamp Clark. His father was of New England stock and his mother was descended from the Cavaliers of Maryland. He was educated in the common schools of Kentucky, Kentucky University, Bethany College and Cincinnati Law School. Bethany College honored him with the degree of Doctor of Laws in 1914. He taught school for a number of years, and in 1873-74 was president of Marshall College, West Virginia.

In 1875, at the age of twenty-five years, he settled in Missouri, at Bowling Green. There he was admitted to the Bar and was city attorney of his home town and Louisiana, Missouri, from 1878 to 1881.

In 1880 he was elected vice-president of the Denver Trans-Mississippi Congress and in that year was chosen Presidential Elector. From 1885 to 1889 he was prosecuting attorney of Pike County, Missouri, and from 1889 to 1891 was a member of the Missouri House, where he framed the Missouri primary law, an anti-trust statute, and an Australian ballot law. His service in Congress began in 1893, but was limited to two years, but he returned in 1897 and every two years thereafter until his defeat in November, 1920.

He developed rapidly after he entered Congress in 1893. After his second election in 1896 he grew in strength and popularity. When John Sharp Williams

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of Mississippi left the House for the Senate, Mr. Clark succeeded him as minority leader by virtue of his seniority on the Ways and Means Committee, which drafted the Payne-Aldrich Tariff Act. His attempts on that committee to keep down the duties marked him as a leader among the Democrats, and his speech against the bill was one of the most notable addresses of that session of Congress.

Mr. Clark's sincerity, his friendship for adherents and political opponents as well, his fairness as a presiding officer, his knowledge of history, his fondness for anecdotes and humorous stories, and his retentive memory gave him distinction among his colleagues and won for him their esteem without regard to party. As minority leader he kept the Democrats of the House as a working unit. When he became speaker in 1910, a position he held for eight years, he retained much of his influence, although overshadowed later by President Wilson, and shorn of most of the power that had been possessed by his predecessor, Speaker Cannon. When the Republicans gained control of Congress in 1918, Mr. Clark was the unanimous choice of his party for Speaker, and became minority leader. In 1904 he was made permanent chairman of the Democratic National Convention at Saint Louis and chairman of the committee notifying Judge Alton B. Parker of his nomination for President.

Mr. Clark's first elevation to the Speakership in 1910 made Oscar Underwood of Alabama next in line as ranking man on the Ways and Means Committeee.

Champ Clark reached the peak of his long political career just before he was defeated by Woodrow Wilson for the Democratic nomination for President at the Baltimore convention in 1912. Only the two-thirds rule,