John Kirkland Clark

John Kirkland Clark, Sr. (January 21, 1877 - January 20, 1963) was a New York City assistant district attorney under Charles S. Whitman, the New York County District Attorney. He was appointed to investigate and prosecute cases of corruption.^[1] He was president of the New York State Board of Law Examiners from 1921 his retirement in 1943.

Biography

He was born on January 21, 1877, in Springfield, Massachusetts to Kate Upson Clark.^[2] He died on January 20, 1963. ^[3]

References

↑ "Clark Appointed Chief Graft Hunter; Named by Assembly Committee as Counsel. Has Whitman's Data Available at Start". New York Times. February 17, 1914. Retrieved 2010-10-08. The Assembly Graft Investigating Committee met this evening and appointed as its counsel John Kirkland Clark, one of District Attorney Whitman's assistants, who has been prominent in the Whitman investigations. Mr. Clark was present at the meeting, and accepted the appointment.
↑ John William Leonard (author) and Frank R. Holmes (1909). "John Kirkland Clark". Who's who in New York City and State. Lawyer: b. Springfield, Mass., Jan. 21, 1877; to Edward P. and Catherine P. (Upson) Clark (mother is well-known author "Kate Upson Clark"); grad. Polytechnic Prep. Sch., Brooklyn, ... Yale Univ., A.Lit., 1899, Harvard Law Sch., LL.B., cum laude, 1902; m. N. Y. City, June 16, 1903, Margaret Chalmers Holbrook; children: Anna Holbrook Clark, b. 1904, John Kirkland Clark, Jr., b. 1906. Admitted to N. Y. Bar, 1903; associated with Hornblower, Byrne, Miller & Potter, 1902-04; now one of attorneys in Legal Dep't, N. Y. Life Ins. Co. Independent Republican. Congregationalism Mem. Ass'n Bar N. Y. City, Phi Beta Kappa Soc. Alpha Delta Phi. Address: 746 St. Nicholas Av., N. Y. City. {{cite encyclopedia}}: |author= has generic name (help)
↑ "John K. Clark, 85, Dies; Headed State Law Board". New York Times. January 21, 1963. Retrieved 2010-10-08. John Kirkland Clark, president of the New York State Board of Law Examiners from 1921 his retirement in 1943, died on Saturday after a long illness. ...

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[1] "Clark Appointed Chief Graft Hunter; Named by Assembly Committee as Counsel. Has Whitman's Data Available at Start". New York Times. February 17, 1914. Retrieved 2010-10-08. The Assembly Graft Investigating Committee met this evening and appointed as its counsel John Kirkland Clark, one of District Attorney Whitman's assistants, who has been prominent in the Whitman investigations. Mr. Clark was present at the meeting, and accepted the appointment.

[2] John William Leonard (author) and Frank R. Holmes (1909). "John Kirkland Clark". Who's who in New York City and State. Lawyer: b. Springfield, Mass., Jan. 21, 1877; to Edward P. and Catherine P. (Upson) Clark (mother is well-known author "Kate Upson Clark"); grad. Polytechnic Prep. Sch., Brooklyn, ... Yale Univ., A.Lit., 1899, Harvard Law Sch., LL.B., cum laude, 1902; m. N. Y. City, June 16, 1903, Margaret Chalmers Holbrook; children: Anna Holbrook Clark, b. 1904, John Kirkland Clark, Jr., b. 1906. Admitted to N. Y. Bar, 1903; associated with Hornblower, Byrne, Miller & Potter, 1902-04; now one of attorneys in Legal Dep't, N. Y. Life Ins. Co. Independent Republican. Congregationalism Mem. Ass'n Bar N. Y. City, Phi Beta Kappa Soc. Alpha Delta Phi. Address: 746 St. Nicholas Av., N. Y. City. {{cite encyclopedia}}: |author= has generic name (help)

[3] "John K. Clark, 85, Dies; Headed State Law Board". New York Times. January 21, 1963. Retrieved 2010-10-08. John Kirkland Clark, president of the New York State Board of Law Examiners from 1921 his retirement in 1943, died on Saturday after a long illness. ...

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