James R. Mann of Illinois, the House Minority Leader while Democrats controlled the chamber during Wilson’s first six years in office, enjoyed an exceptionally warm relationship with Speaker Champ Clark. He appeared in public with the Democratic National Committee’s Elizabeth Bass to promote bipartisan support for the Anthony Amendment, and chaired the Woman Suffrage Committee when it came to a final vote in 1919, winning the support of over 80 percent of his party. This photograph was taken the following year.
Source photograph: Photo by Edmonston, Washington, D.C.; Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division.
Date: c. 1920
James R. Mann of Illinois, the House Minority Leader while Democrats controlled the chamber during Wilson’s first six years in office, enjoyed an exceptionally warm relationship with Speaker Champ Clark. He appeared in public with the Democratic National Committee’s Elizabeth Bass to promote bipartisan support for the Anthony Amendment, and chaired the Woman Suffrage Committee when it came to a final vote in 1919, winning the support of over 80 percent of his party. This photograph was taken the following year.
Source photograph: Photo by Edmonston, Washington, D.C.; Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division.
Date: c. 1920