
Bennett Champ Clark (8 January 1890-13 July 1954) was a Democratic US Senator from Missouri from 3 February 1933 to 3 January 1945, succeeding Harry B. Hawes and preceding Forrest C. Donnell.
Biography[]
Joel Bennett Clark was born in Bowling Green, Missouri, the son of Speaker of the US House of Representatives Champ Clark, and he was also raised in Washington DC. He served in the US Army during World War I and became a lawyer in St. Louis in 1919. Clark went on to serve as a delegate to the 1928, 1936, 1940, and 1944 Democratic National Convention before serving in the US Senate from 1933 to 1945. He was a staunch isolationist and Anglophobe, and he also demanded that Emperor Hirohito of Japan be hanged as a war criminal at the end of World War II. He died in Gloucester, Massachusetts in 1954.