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Senate Years of Service: 1943-1977 Party: Democrat
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McCLELLAN, John Little, a Representative and a Senator from Arkansas; born in Sheridan, Grant County,
Ark., February 25, 1896; studied law and was admitted to the bar in 1913, when he was seventeen;
commenced practice in Sheridan, Ark.; during the First World War served in the United States Army
as a first lieutenant in the Aviation Section of the Signal Corps 1917-1919; moved to Malvern, Ark.,
in 1919 and continued the practice of law; prosecuting attorney of the seventh judicial district of
Arkansas 1927-1930; elected as a Democrat to the Seventy-fourth Congress; reelected to the
Seventy-fifth Congress (January 3, 1935-January 3, 1939); was not a candidate in 1938 for
reelection but was an unsuccessful candidate for election to the United States Senate; resumed the
practice of law in Camden, Ark.; elected as a Democrat to the United States Senate in 1942;
reelected in 1948, 1954, 1960, 1966 and 1972 and served from January 3, 1943, until his death;
chairman, Committee on Expenditures in Executive Departments (Eighty-first and Eighty-second
Congresses); Committee on Government Operations (Eighty-fourth through Ninety-second
Congresses), Select Committee on Labor Management Relations (Eighty-fifth and Eighty-sixth
Congresses), Committee on Appropriations (Ninety-second through Ninety-fifth Congresses); died in
Little Rock, Ark., November 28, 1977; interment in Roselawn Memorial Park.
BibliographyAmerican National Biography;
McClellan, John L. Crime Without Punishment. New York: Duell, Storn and
Pearce, 1962; U.S. Congress. Memorial Services. 95th Cong., 1st sess., 1977.
Washington, Government Printing Office, 1977.
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