Joe Holleman | Post-Dispatch

Political correspondent/columnist

In a move that would please both philatelists and politicos, the likeness of the late U.S. Rep. William "Bill" Clay Sr. may end up on a postage stamp.

U.S. Rep. Wesley Bell introduced a measure Wednesday that calls for the U.S. Postal Service to create a commemorative stamp to honor the storied legislator, who died in July at the age of 94.

Bell said Clay's "legacy lives on in the movement he helped build, the Black lawmakers he helped lift up, and the community he never stopped serving."

The first Black person elected to Congress from Missouri, Clay began his public career in St. Louis, first as a union organizer and civil rights activist protesting segregation, then as a politician on the city's Board of Aldermen.

He

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