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John Little McClellan (February 25, 1896 – November 28, 1977) was an American lawyer and politician. A member of the Democratic Party, he served as a U.S. Representative (1935–1939) and a U.S. Senator (1943–1977) from Arkansas. At the time of his death, he was the second most senior member of the Senate and chairman of the Senate Appropriations Committee. He is the longest-serving Senator in Arkansas history. ==Early life and career== John McClellan was born on a farm near Sheridan, in Grant County, Arkansas, to Isaac Scott and Belle (née Suddeth) McClellan.〔 His parents, who were strong Democrats, named him after John Sebastian Little, who served as a U.S. Representative (1894–1907) and Governor of Arkansas (1907).〔 His mother died only months after his birth, and he received his early education at local public schools. At age 12, after graduating from Sheridan High School, he began studying law in his father's office. He was admitted to the state bar association in 1913, when he was only 17, after the Arkansas General Assembly approved a special act waiving the normal age requirement for certification as a lawyer.〔 As the youngest attorney in the United States, he practiced law with his father in Sheridan.〔 McClellan was a renowned racist. As a boy, after Theodore Roosevelt invited Booker T. Washington to dinner at the White House, McClellan wrote a prize-winning school essay proclaiming that Roosevelt had destroyed the integrity of the presidency. Well into his teenage years, McClellan carried a copy of this essay with him, showing it to influential politicians who were friends of his father. His negative attitudes on race transcended throughout his life. McClelland was an author of the Southern Manifesto, which attempted to delegitimize the Brown v. Board of Education decision, in which the United States Supreme Court held that segregated public schools violated the Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution. McClellan married Eula Hicks in 1913; the couple had two children, and divorced in 1921.〔 During World War I, he served in the U.S. Army as a first lieutenant in the aviation section of the Signal Corps from 1917 to 1919. Following his military service, he moved to Malvern, where he opened a law office and served as city attorney (1920–1926).〔 In 1922, he married Lucille Smith, to whom he remained married until her death in 1935; they had three children.〔 He was prosecuting attorney of the seventh judicial district of Arkansas from 1927 to 1930.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「John Little McClellan」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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