James Orville Clark Explained

Office:President pro tempore of the Mississippi State Senate
Termstart:January 1952
Termend:January 1956
Termstart1:January 1948
Termend1:January 1956
Termstart2:January 1940
Termend2:January 1944
Birth Date:2 August 1910
Birth Place:Belmont, Mississippi, U.S.
Death Place:Tishomingo County, Mississippi, U.S.
Party:Democratic
State Senate1:Mississippi State
State House2:Mississippi
District1:37th
District2:Tishomingo County
Predecessor:Oscar O. Wolfe
Successor:Earl Evans Jr.

James Orville "Click" Clark (August 2, 1910 - November 17, 1971) was an American lawyer and Democratic politician. He served in the Mississippi House of Representatives and Mississippi Senate.[1] [2]

Biography

James Orville Clark was born on August 2, 1910, in Belmont, Mississippi.[3] He was a lawyer. He represented Tishomingo County in the Mississippi House of Representatives from 1940 to 1944.[4] [5] He then served in the Mississippi State Senate, representing the 37th District, from 1948 to 1956. At the start of the 1952 session, Clark was elected to be the senate's president pro tempore for the 1952-1956 term.[6] In 1955, Clark unsuccessfully ran for the Democratic nomination for the office of lieutenant governor of Mississippi.[7] [8] On the night of November 17, 1971, Clark and three others were killed in a twin-engine airplane crash near Iuka, Mississippi.

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Host Bibliographic Record for Boundwith Item Barcode 30112116989598 and Others. October 27, 2013. Google Books.
  2. Web site: Host Bibliographic Record for Boundwith Item Barcode 30112116989598 and Others . 2013 .
  3. Mississippi. Legislature . 1952-01-01 . Hand book : biographical data of members of Senate and House, personnel of standing committees [1952] ]. Mississippi Legislature Hand Books.
  4. Web site: Mississippi Official and Statistical Register. October 27, 1949. Secretary of State.. Google Books.
  5. Mississippi. Legislature . 1940-01-01 . Hand book : biographical data of members of Senate and House, personnel of standing committees [1940] ]. Mississippi Legislature Hand Books.
  6. News: 1952-01-09 . In The Senate . 1 . Clarion-Ledger . 2022-11-13.
  7. News: 1955-05-26 . J. O. Clark . 9 . The Star-Herald . 2022-11-13.
  8. News: 1971-11-19 . Obituary for J.O. Clark . 2 . Hattiesburg American . 2022-11-13.