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PERKY, Kirtland Irving, (1867 - 1939) bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=P000238

Thanks for the pointer to the information, swanq. We'll correct the name and add a better date estimate next time we update the record.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kirtland_Irving_Perky

William Robert ("Sawney") Webb (1842-1926), United States Senator (D) from Tennessee; 62d Congress (1913-1913). Grandson of Rep. Richard Stanford. Enlisted in Confederate Army; returned to North Carolina in 1865; graduated from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 1868. Founded the Webb School, a preparatory school, at Culleoka, Tenn., in 1870; moved the school to Bell Buckle, Tenn., in 1886; elected as a Democrat to the United States Senate to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Robert L. Taylor and served for 39 days from January 24, 1913, to March 3, 1913; was not a candidate for reelection in 1913. –more... Wikipedia

Thanks for the information Pixel Wrangler. We'll clarify the name in the title, and add the year he served to the date when we update the record.

I added the photo: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_R._Webb

Daughter of the Speaker of the House (doesn't say if that's Federal or State). Was engaged to James M Thomson of New Orleans in June 1915. query.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=9404EFDA1539E333A...

Everything looks so shiny and high-tech. Ms. Clark looks as satisfied as anyone being photographed with a new Blackberry, iPhone, or Android a century later.

She was the daughter of Champ Clark,(1850 – 1921), Speaker of the United States House of Representatives from 1911 to 1919, and an unsuccessful candidate for nomination to be the Democratic Partly candidate in the Presidential Election of 1912. Clark story shared at banquet -- Article from the Bowling Green Times about Genevieve Clark Thomson's story, as recounted by her nephew. The great tragedy of her life was the loss of her three year old son, Little Champ. When his birthday came around, she remembered him by delivering ice cream to children in the hospital. She was also a Suffragette, she ran for Congress, wrote a political column, and was known for her fashion sense, inspiring a hairstyle known as "the Genevieve Curl."

Some Bain trivia: The negative number etched here is 2680-3. You will notice that Miss Clark is sitting at the same desk, using the same telephone as that which sits on the desk of Alben Barkley, adjacent in this photostream, and which also has the consecutive negative number 2680-2: www.flickr.com/photos/library_of_congress/3294674193/

Lovely photograph and portrait!