Background
Joshua Reuben Clark was born on September 1, 1871 in Grantsville, Utah, United States. He was the son of Joshua Reuben Clark, a Union soldier in the Civil War and a Montana miner, and of Mary Louisa Woolley.
(This book is a concurrent treatment of the four Gospels: ...)
This book is a concurrent treatment of the four Gospels: Matthew, Mark, Luke and John as well as 3 Nephi in the Book of Mormon where it coincides with the Gospels. There is also a full section for 3 Nephi which relates to Christ's minitry in the Western Hemisphere.
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Joshua Reuben Clark was born on September 1, 1871 in Grantsville, Utah, United States. He was the son of Joshua Reuben Clark, a Union soldier in the Civil War and a Montana miner, and of Mary Louisa Woolley.
He was tutored by his mother until the age of ten, then completed the eight grades of public school available in Grantsville. Next he became curator of the Deseret Museum in Salt Lake City. Clark enrolled in the University of Utah in 1894, finishing high school and college in four years and graduating with the B. S. as valedictorian and secretary to the president of the university. He entered Columbia University Law School, where he received the LL. B. in 1906.
He was a teacher in several Utah localities until 1903, when he took his family to New York City. At Columbia, Clark came to the attention of James Brown Scott, professor of international law. When Scott became solicitor of the Department of State in 1906, he appointed Clark assistant solicitor. Clark soon prepared the monograph Judicial Determination of Questions of Citizenship, which became an authoritative text for immigration cases. On July 1, 1910, President William H. Taft appointed Clark solicitor of the Department of State. Shortly afterward Clark finished a massive documentation for the American case in the Alsop Arbitration with Chile, involving Chilean expropriation of several American companies. The king of England was the "amiable compositeur, " and as arbitrator awarded the United States $905, 000, one of the largest awards made up to that time. Another of Clark's activities as solicitor was preparation of Memorandum on the Right to Protect Citizens in Foreign Countries by Landing Forces, a useful document for the United States government in its relations with Caribbean and Central American nations. Leaving the State Department in 1913, Clark opened a law office in Washington, with branches in New York and Salt Lake City. In 1928, Clark was appointed undersecretary of state, an office similar to that of solicitor, which it had superseded. In this capacity he helped draw up the "Clark Memorandum" on the Monroe Doctrine. The memorandum seemed to say that the Roosevelt Corollary of 1904 was not properly a part of the Monroe Doctrine. It was a long document of 238 printed pages, with a prolix covering letter of seventeen pages to Secretary of State Frank B. Kellogg. Although it was published by the Government Printing Office in 1930, the memorandum was not officially sanctioned by the Department of State and has taken on importance only in the writings of historians and international lawyers who have seen it as definitive. Clark left the State Department in 1929 to become aide to Dwight Morrow, ambassador to Mexico, and in 1930 succeeded Morrow in Mexico, where he remained until March 1933. If his Mexican years did not see any notable achievements, neither were there notable failures. His stay there was marked by the exercise of good sense; at one juncture he said, thoughtfully, "Mexican ethical, moral, and legal standards are different from those in the United States, but not necessarily lower, and at any rate are controlling here. " In 1933, Clark commenced a virtually new career as a high official of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, with appointment as second counselor to President Heber J. Grant. He became first counselor in 1934, and served as an apostle from that year until his death at Salt Lake City. Clark's legal and diplomatic ideas were considered noteworthy in their day. The country, he sometimes said, had gone through three epochs: the first from the Revolution until 1800, when American separateness from Europe was achieved; the second during the nineteenth century, when a marvelous perfection--that is, separateness--was confirmed; and the third beginning with World War I, when tragedy followed tragedy.
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He supported American participation in both world wars, but opposed the League of Nations and the United Nations because they subtracted from American sovereignty, and hence from America's mission.
Nothing, he thought, should subtract from American sovereignty and from American moral force, the force that came from divine mission.
Quotations: He possessed a sense of humor and in his old age, when he still held to his ideas of years before, remarked: "Many think me just a doddering old fogy. I admit the age, but deny the rest of the allegation--the doddering and fogyness. " He shared his church's feeling for the divine mission of America: "Believing as we do that America is Zion, we shall then see the beginning of the fulfillment of the prophecy of Isaiah of old 'for out of Zion shall go forth the law. ' . .. "
In 1898 he married Luacine Annetta Savage in the Salt Lake City Temple; they had four children.
