Background
Clarke, William Hawes Crichton was born on July 15, 1882 in Washington, District of Columbia. Son of William James Patmore and Sarah (Richardson) Clarke.
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William Hawes Crichton Clarke
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Studied medicine and law George Washington University, Doctor of Laws, Oglethorpe University, 1928.
Career
Admitted to Patent Office Bar, 1902. Supreme Court and Court of Appeals of District of Columbia, 1906. Supreme Court of the United States, 1911.
Supreme Court of New York, 1913.
Counsel Kellogg Company (Battle Creek, Michigan), Iodent Chemical Company, American Booksellers Association, American Fair Trade League, Alliance Against Food Frauds, Panama-Pacific Exposition Company, et cetera Partner of late Edward Bruce Moore, commissioner of patents under Presidents Roosevelt, Taft and Wilson, in firm of Moore & Clarke.
Ran for Congress, 5th District New Jersey, 1918. Resided in India, 1903-1904.
Radio commentator; chairman Association for a World Constitutional Convention.
Chairman Air Services Memorial Committee Author: Fields of Faith, Ideals and Reals, Creed-Prayer of Spiritual Evolution and of notebooks deposited at Emerson Hall, Harvard University Home: Mountain Lakes, New Jersey, and New York City.
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Married Elizabeth Macpherson Crichton, June 15, 1905 (divorced 1932). Married second, Ruth McNamara Work, December 28, 1937. Children: Douglas Richardson, James Malcolm.
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American