S. Wesley Clark

For the U.S. Army General and Presidential candidate, see Wesley Clark.

S. Wesley Clark was a politician in South Dakota, United States.

Biography

Clark was born Samuel Wesley Clark to Samuel Pliny and Elizabeth Dennison Clark on December 28, 1872, in Platteville, Wisconsin.[1] In 1900, he would marry Daisy Labrie, who died in 1915. Later he would marry Essie Eggler in 1919. He was a Congregationalist.

Career

Clark was the state's attorney of Spink County, South Dakota, from 1900 to 1904. He would serve as attorney general of South Dakota from 1907 to 1911 before being appointed U.S. attorney of South Dakota, serving from 1921 to 1926.

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