Missourian Champ Clark was for women’s suffrage long before he arrived in Congress. But as Speaker of the House at a time when southern Democrats dominated, he did not beat the suffrage drum. He never forgot his bitter fight with Wilson for the Democratic presidential nomination in 1912, the year this photograph was taken. That was one reason he allowed a thousand anti-Wilson suffragists to use Statuary Hall in the Capitol for a Christmas Day protest meeting in 1916.
Source photograph: Bain News Service, publisher; Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, Bain News Service Photograph Collection.
Date: 1912
Missourian Champ Clark was for women’s suffrage long before he arrived in Congress. But as Speaker of the House at a time when southern Democrats dominated, he did not beat the suffrage drum. He never forgot his bitter fight with Wilson for the Democratic presidential nomination in 1912, the year this photograph was taken. That was one reason he allowed a thousand anti-Wilson suffragists to use Statuary Hall in the Capitol for a Christmas Day protest meeting in 1916.
Source photograph: Bain News Service, publisher; Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, Bain News Service Photograph Collection.
Date: 1912