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Senate Years of Service: 1903-1916 Party: Democrat
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CLARKE, James Paul, a Senator from Arkansas; born in Yazoo City, Yazoo County, Miss., August 18,
1854; attended the public schools and Professor Tutwilders Academy, Greenbrier, Ala.; graduated
from the law department of the University of Virginia at Charlottesville in 1878; admitted to the bar in
1879 and commenced practice in Helena, Phillips County, Ark.; member, State house of
representatives 1886-1888; member, State senate 1888-1892, serving as president in 1891 and ex
officio lieutenant governor; attorney general of Arkansas 1892-1894; declined to be a candidate for
renomination; Governor of Arkansas 1895-1896; moved to Little Rock, Ark., in 1897 and resumed
the practice of law; elected as a Democrat to the United States Senate in 1903; reelected in 1909
and again in 1915 and served from March 4, 1903, until his death on October 1, 1916; served as
President pro tempore of the Senate during the Sixty-third and Sixty-fourth Congresses; chairman,
Committee on Disposition of Useless Executive Papers (Sixty-first and Sixty-second Congresses),
Committee on Commerce (Sixty-third and Sixty-fourth Congresses); died in Little Rock, Ark.;
interment in Oakland Cemetery.
BibliographyAmerican National Biography; Dictionary of American Biography; U.S. Congress. Memorial Addresses.
64th Cong., 2nd sess., 1916-1917. Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office, 1917.
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