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Mr. Clark was politician, and unsuccessful candidate for Democratic nomination for President in 1912, losing to Woodrow Wilson. He was accused of being part of the corrupt machine politics of the age. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Champ_Clark Clark actually had the majority of the votes for the nomination, but did not get 2/3, which opened the door to Wilson. He looks pretty confident here though. Below is article about wild and woolly 3-way election of 1912. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Election_of_1912

Champ Clark is shown here at Sea Girt, New Jersey, bitterly disappointed and humiliated after the 1912 Democratic National Convention, in which he lost the party's Presidential nomination to Woodrow Wilson. Sea Girt, a resort town, was the location of the New Jersey "summer White House." Wilson, who was still the Governor of New Jersey, received visitors there while he mapped out the fall campaign. Clark was part of a delegation of Congressmen who came to Sea Girt to congratulate Wilson. Other Bain/LOC photos show Woodrow Wilson seated in the rocking chair beside Clark:

Would this be the notification committee we've seen in other pics?

They certainly look happy. Was this in 1912? With the GOP in disarray that year, I'd guess they smell blood in the water, after 44 of the last 52 years having a Republican President.

Many of them seem to have the same hat. Are those Panama hats? I wonder if this meeting had something to do with the Panama canal.

They look like "boater" hats, popularly worn in the summers of that era: www.gentlemansemporium.com/store/hats.php?from=leftnav Top hats were out, and fedora's would not come in for another 15 years or so. The Panama Canal had already been built and fully operational this point, during the Roosevelt administration.

I'm surprised that they're sitting on the grass-- you'd never see that kind of thing these days.

I love this.

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