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  McClellan, John L.
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NameJohn L. McClellan
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Camden, Arkansas , United States
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Born February 25, 1896
Died November 28, 1977 (81 years)
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InfoMCCLELLAN, John Little, a Representative and a Senator from Arkansas; born in Sheridan, Grant County, Ark., February 25, 1896; studied law and was admitted to the bar in 1913, when he was seventeen; commenced practice in Sheridan, Ark.; during the First World War served in the United States Army as a first lieutenant in the Aviation Section of the Signal Corps 1917-1919; moved to Malvern, Ark., in 1919 and continued the practice of law; prosecuting attorney of the seventh judicial district of Arkansas 1927-1930; elected as a Democrat to the Seventy-fourth Congress; reelected to the Seventy-fifth Congress (January 3, 1935-January 3, 1939); was not a candidate in 1938 for reelection but was an unsuccessful candidate for election to the United States Senate; resumed the practice of law in Camden, Ark.; elected as a Democrat to the United States Senate in 1942; reelected in 1948, 1954, 1960, 1966 and 1972 and served from January 3, 1943, until his death; chairman, Committee on Expenditures in Executive Departments (Eighty-first and Eighty-second Congresses); Committee on Government Operations (Eighty-fourth through Ninety-second Congresses), Select Committee on Labor Management Relations (Eighty-fifth and Eighty-sixth Congresses), Committee on Appropriations (Ninety-second through Ninety-fifth Congresses); died in Little Rock, Ark., November 28, 1977; interment in Roselawn Memorial Park.


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RACES
  11/07/1972 AR US Senate Won 60.88% (+21.77%)
  06/13/1972 AR US Senate - D Runoff Won 52.00% (+4.01%)
  05/16/1972 AR US Senate - D Primary Won 44.70% (+3.35%)
  11/08/1966 AR US Senate Won 100.00% (+100.00%)
  07/26/1966 AR US Senate - D Primary Won 77.19% (+54.39%)
  11/08/1960 AR US Senate Won 99.88% (+99.76%)
  11/02/1954 AR US Senate Won 100.00% (+100.00%)
  07/27/1954 AR US Senate - D Primary Won 50.35% (+11.29%)
  11/02/1948 AR US Senate Won 93.19% (+86.37%)
  11/03/1942 AR US Senate Won 100.00% (+100.00%)
  08/11/1942 AR US Senate - D Runoff Won 61.65% (+23.31%)
  07/28/1942 AR US Senate - D Primary Won 31.78% (+0.00%)
  08/09/1938 AR US Senate - D Primary Lost 47.27% (-3.78%)
  11/03/1936 AR District 6 Won 100.00% (+100.00%)
  11/06/1934 AR District 6 Won 100.00% (+100.00%)
ENDORSEMENTS
Secretary of Labor - Jan 26, 1977 NPA Reject
Supreme Court - Associate Justice - Dec 17, 1975 R John Paul Stevens
US Secretary of the Interior - Jun 11, 1975 R Stanley K. Hathaway
Supreme Court - Associate Justice - Dec 15, 1971 R William H. Rehnquist
Supreme Court - Associate Justice - Dec 09, 1971 D Lewis Franklin Powell, Jr.
Supreme Court - Associate Justice - May 17, 1970 R Harry Blackmun
Supreme Court - Associate Justice - Apr 08, 1970 R G. Harrold Carswell
Supreme Court - Associate Justice - Nov 21, 1969 R Clement Furman Haynsworth, Jr.
Supreme Court - Chief Justice - Jun 23, 1969 R Warren E. Burger
US Secretary of Commerce - Jun 18, 1959 R Lewis L. Strauss
Supreme Court - Associate Justice - Oct 14, 1958 NPA Reject
Supreme Court - Associate Justice - Mar 17, 1955 NPA Reject
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