Chase A. Clark

Chase Addison Clark (born August 20, 1883 in Amo , Hendricks County , Indiana , † December 30, 1966 in Boise , Idaho ) was an American politician and governor of the state of Idaho from 1941 to 1943 . He then became a federal judge in the federal district court for the district of Idaho.

Early years and political advancement

Chase Clark was the younger brother of Barzilla W. Clark , who had been Idaho Governor from 1937 to 1939. After his family moved to Idaho, Clark attended public schools in Idaho Falls . In the meantime, he returned to Indiana, where he finished high school. He then studied law at the University of Michigan . After his admission to the bar in 1904, he began to work in this profession in Mackay . During the First World War he was a soldier in a machine gun unit in the US Army .

Clark became a member of the Democratic Party . In 1910 he was elected to the Idaho House of Representatives. He exercised this mandate until his deployment in the First World War. In 1928, Clark ran unsuccessfully for a seat in the US Senate . He was a member of the State Senate from 1933 to 1936 and served as Mayor of Idaho Falls between 1937 and 1938. In 1940 he was elected as the new governor of his state with a margin of 2,300 votes over the Republican incumbent CA Bottolfsen .

Governor and federal judge

Clark took up his new office on January 6, 1941. During his two-year term, which ended on January 4, 1943, the United States entered World War II . Both Idaho and its governor had to contribute to this war. As in the other states, food and fuel had to be rationed and production had to be converted to armaments. At the same time, young men were patterned and made available to the armed forces. In Idaho, some government institutions, including the Department of Health, have been reorganized. In 1942, Clark was defeated by his predecessor Bottolfsen in the gubernatorial election.

Two months after the end of his tenure, Clark was appointed judge of the United States District Court for the District of Idaho by President Franklin D. Roosevelt to succeed Charles Cheatham Cavanah . He held this office until his death in 1966; his seat then fell to Raymond Clyne McNichols . Chase Clark was married to Jean Burnett, with whom he had daughter Bethine. His son-in-law, Frank Church, was a US Senator for Idaho from 1957 to 1981. His daughter was also active in the Democratic Party. US Senator David Worth Clark was a nephew of Chase Clark.

Web links

• Chase Clark in the National Governors Association (English)

• Chase A. Clark in the database of Find a Grave (English)
• Chase A. Clark in the Biographical Directory of Federal Judges