Before he became famous as Mark Twain, Samuel L. Clemens worked here.
- The Patent Office
- The St. Louis Police Department
- The Supreme Court
- The US Congress
The US Congress. In the late 1860s Clemens served as an aide to Nevada Senator William Stewart. Twain later joked: “There is no distinctly native American criminal class except Congress.”
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