Clark, Champ (1850-1921), an American politician, became one of the best-known Democratic Party leaders of his time. A Missouri Democrat, he served 26 years in the U.S. House of Representatives from 1893 to 1921. He was speaker of the House from 1911 to 1919. Woodrow Wilson narrowly defeated Clark in 1912 for the Democratic presidential nomination.
James Beauchamp Clark was born near Lawrenceburg, Kentucky. He graduated from Bethany College in West Virginia in 1873, and from the Cincinnati Law School in 1875.
