John Little McClellan

John Little McClellan ( born February 25, 1896 in Sheridan, Grant County, Arkansas; † 28 November 1977, in Little Rock, Arkansas) was an American politician who represented the state of Arkansas in both chambers of Congress.

Life

John Little McClellan comes from a Democrat family and was named after the Democratic governor and U.S. Rep. John Sebastian Little. He studied law and was admitted at the age of 17 years in 1913 as a lawyer. Then he opened a practice in Sheridan. During World War II he served in the U.S. Army in the rank of First Lieutenant in the Aviation Section of the U.S. Army Signal Corps 1917-1919. Having been discharged from the army, he moved in 1919 to Malvern and practiced on his work as a lawyer from. After that, he was a prosecutor of the seventh judicial district of Arkansas 1927-1930.

Policy

McClellan was elected as a Democrat to the 74th and the 75th Congress. His term came from 3 January 1935 to 3 January 1939. He decided in 1938 to the 76th Congress not to run, but applied unsuccessfully for a seat in the U.S. Senate. Then he returned to his law practice back in Camden.

In 1942, he was but then elected to the U.S. Senate. He was reelected until his death in 1977 every time. During this time he was chairman of the committee issue in conducting Ministry ( 81st and 82nd Congress ); Committee on State activities ( 82 to 92 Congress ); Special Committee on Labour Relations ( 85th and 86th Congress ) and Grants Committee ( 92nd to 95th Congress ). Furthermore, he was one of 19 Southern senators who signed the Southern Manifesto, which spoke out against racial integration in public institutions.

John McClellan died on November 28, 1977 in Little Rock. He was buried at Roselawn Memorial Park.