American AcornsCongressional Record, Senate, 7 October 1943, p. 8166: a page of Army appointments, with lists of promotions in the regular army and of temporary appointments in the Army of the United States. In the third column, under 'To be brigadier generals', the name Herbert Slayden Clarkson appears between Russell Alger Osmun and Roland Francis Walsh.
Image · dated 7 Oct 1943 · source: Congressional Record, vol. 89 (1943), United States Government; Internet Archive
How it is shown: Complete page as supplied, including the dark borders of the original copy; no crop, no retouch.
Keep in mind: What the page says: Confirmed: the name is in the list of brigadier generals under temporary appointments in the Army of the United States. Whether the list is of nominations or of confirmed appointments is not stated on this page; the day's heading for it falls outside the page. The page gives no birth date, home or other detail. Whether this is our person: Confirmed on the full name, which is distinctive, and on the rank: the tree's Brig. Gen. Herbert Slayden Clarkson (1891-1974) is called a brigadier general in the October 1943 newspaper announcement of his son's wedding.