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4 unusual facts about Clerk of the United States House of Representatives


Christopher Evan Welch

In 2012, he appeared in the films The Master and Lincoln as Clerk of the House Edward McPherson, as well as a role in the television series Elementary.

Federal Contested Elections Act

The Federal Contested Elections Act of 1969 (2 U.S.C. ยงยง 381 et seq.), also FCEA provides a procedure for candidates to the United States House of Representatives to contest general elections by filing with the Clerk of the House.

House Page Board

Currently, the Sergeant at Arms of the United States House of Representatives and Clerk of the United States House of Representatives serve on the board.

Words taken down

According to C-SPAN's congressional glossary, "After the words are 'taken down' by the clerk and read back, the chair rules on their suitability. If ruled inappropriate, the member may not speak again on the same day without House permission."


Adam John Glossbrenner

He was Clerk of the United States House of Representatives during the Twenty-eighth and Twenty-ninth Congresses, and in the United States Department of State at Washington, D.C., in 1848 and 1849.

Joseph M. Kendall

-- A grammar fix may be needed here. -->Clerk of the House of Representatives in the Forty-ninth and Fiftieth Congresses.

United States House Select Committee on Government Contracts

The rest of the committee returned to New York, and after receiving testimony and evidence from the custom-house in its own defense, ordered the testimony taken by Mr. Van Wyck to be deposited with the Clerk of the House "subject only to the inspection of any member of the committee."


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