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Died. Moses Edwin Clapp ("The Black Eagle of Minnesota"), 77, Washington lawyer, longtime Republican Senator from Minnesota (1901-17), Progressive associate of the late, great Robert Marion La Follette; of apoplexy; at his country home, Union Farm (once part of George Washington's estate), near Accotink, Va. In the 1916 Minnesota primary. Senator Clapp was defeated, as was the late U. S. Representative Charles A. Lindbergh. The victor was Frank Billings Kellogg. In 1927 Mr. Clapp rescued his small granddaughter from drowning in the Potomac, suffered a lasting shock...
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