Jasper County Democrat, Volume 19, Number 54, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 October 1916 — SEN. JAMES P. CLARKE DEAD. [ARTICLE]

SEN. JAMES P. CLARKE DEAD.

President Pro Tem of the United States Senate. Little Jlock, Ark., Oct. 2.—U. S. Senator James P. Clarke, president pro-tempore of the United States senate, died at his home here yesterday. He suffered a stroke of apoplexy Friday and never regained consciousness. Physicians and members of the family, however, minimized the seriousness of his condition so that the news of his death came .as a shock. Senator Clarke was born in Yazoo City, Miss., August 18, 1854. He was graduated from the law department of the university of Virginia in 1878 and began to practice law in Helena, Arkansas, in 1879. Entering politics, Mr. Clarke was advanced rapidly from legislator in 1886 to state senator in 1888, to the presidency of the state senate in 1891, and to attorney general in 1892. He was elected governor in 1894, declining renomination after one term to practice law in Little Rock. In 1903 he was elected United States senator and was re-elected in 1909 and in 1915. His present term as United States senator would not have expired until March 4, 1921. Senator Clarke was married in Helena, November 15, 1883, to Miss Sallie Moore. She and a son and two daughters survive. Funeral services were held on Tuesday afternoon from the residence here, followed by interment in a local cemetery. Senator Clarke had been president pro-tempore of the senate since the Democratic party gained control in 1913. He was chosen by Hie party caucus to succeed the late Senator Frye of Maine, after a spirited contest, and was re-elected to the place in the sixth-fourth congress. Subscribe for The Democrat.