CLARKE, James Paul, a Senator from
Arkansas; born in Yazoo City, Yazoo County, Miss., August 18, 1854; attended the
public schools and Professor Tutwilder’s Academy, Greenbrier, Ala.; was
graduated from the law department of the University of Virginia at
Charlottesville in 1878; was 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. - -Biographical
Data courtesy of the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress.
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