Earl Wesley Clark

Background

Clark, Earl Wesley was born on August 10, 1901 in Cadwell, Illinois, United States. Son of Charles Wesley and Mary Comfort (Harding) Clark.

Education

Bachelor of Arts, Eureka College, 1928; A.M., University of Illinois, 1931.

Career

Instructor high school, El Paso, Illinois, 1928-1932; vocational director, Bureau Public Welfare, Chicago and Cook County, Illinois, 1933; district and later state representative, Illinois Emergency Relief Comm., 1934-1935; Peoria district director, regional Executive officer, deputy regional administrator, regional administrator (covering Illinois, Wisconsin, Minnesota, Nebraska, Iowa, South Dakot, North Dakota), Chicago OPA Region, 1943-1946; assistant and later national commissioner, OPA, 1947; member, War Contracts Price adjustment Board, 1947; national liquidation officer, Office of Temporary Controls (included OPA, Civilian Production Administration, Office War Mobilization and Reconversion, Office Economics Stablzn.), 1947; director division of liquidation, Department Commerce (included OPA, Civilian Production Administration, Office War Mobilization and Reconversion, Office Economics Stablzn., Office Temporary Controls, Foreign Econ, 1947-1948; chief departmental mobilization staff, later director, Office of Industry Cooperation, 1948-1949; Chairman of the Board appeals-employee grievances, Department Commerce also public hearing officer, Office of Industry Cooperation special assistant to secretary of commerce, 1949-1950; deputy maritime administrator, Maritime Administrn., 1950-1953; president, New York & Cuba Mail S.S. Company maritime consultant Member, National Cargo Bureau, Inc., 1954; co-director, Labor-Management Maritime Committee, 1955-1980. Lecturer Florida State University, 1952. Member of national advisory board Operation Ship Shape, Inc., 1968-1971.

Member of advisory commission on requirements Department Commerce, 1949. Advising committee on technical assistance Department State, 1949-1950. Industry adviser Intergovtl.

Maritime Consultatory Organisation of United Nations, London, 1965. Member Radio Technology Commission Maritime Services. Co-chairman special committee Bridge-to-BridgeCommunication, 1958.

Achievements

• Earl Wesley Clark has been listed as a notable Maritime consultant, political scientist by Marquis Who's Who.

Works

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• book

  • Medical and Hospital Care for Merchant Seamen, Volume 1, Historical Review of the Marine Hospitalization Program

Membership

Red Cross division chairman, 1947, Committee Fund division chairman, 1947. Member Great Lakes Pilotage Advisory Committee, 1960-1970. Past board directors, chairman foreign relations committee United Seamans Service.

Former member Society Naval Architects and Marine Engineers, National Defense Transportation Association, Navy League. Member Pi Kappa Delta, Lambda Chi Alpha. Clubs: Propeller (president Washington club, member national board directors 1964-1966, chairman positions and resolutions committee of the United States 1964-1974, vice chairman 1974-1979, member national executive committee 1966-1979, national finance committee 1971-1976, member national constitution and by-laws committee 1966-1974, national conference committee 1966-1980).

Connections

Married Mary Eudora Bracken, June 28, 1922 (deceased 1972). 1 child, Mistress Joan C. Hoover.

Father:

Charles Wesley Clark

Mother:

Mary Comfort (Harding) Clark

Spouse:

Mary Eudora Bracken

child:

Mistress Joan C. Hoover Clark