Clark, Champ
lawyer, legislator, lecturer, author, was born March 7, 1850, near Lawrenceburg, Ky. In 1873 he graduated with highest honors from the Bethany college, W. Va.; and became president of the Marshall college of Huntington, W. Va. He has been city attorney of Louisiana and Bowling Green, Mo.; prosecuting attorney of Pike county, Mo.; and he has served as special judge of the Louisiana (Mo.) court of common pleas.
He was a member of the Missouri state legislature, and a member of the fiftythird and fifty-fifth congresses. In 1891 he was a delegate to the Trans-Mississippi congress at Denver, and was chairman of the Missouri delegation and vicepresident.