Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1928-08-26
Mr.. and Mrs. Clark Back
In u. S. Capital After
Lapse of Eight Years
Undersecretary of State For
merly Held Important
Positions Here Later
Practiced Law in Utah.

The new Undersecretary Of State.
Mr.. Joshua Reuben Clark. and Mr..
Clark return TO familiar scene of
action, for 1t was In 1906 that they
came to Washington, the former 10
accept a minor position in the offlce
Of the solicitor of the State Depart
ment and ct the same time to attend
classes in the George Washington
School Of Law In 1907, Mr.. Clark
was appointed an associate professor
of law in the local institute where he
had been a student and year later he
became solicitor of the State Depart
ment. He remained continuously in
this latter post until 1913. when Presi-
dent Taft sent him as chairman Of the
preparatory committee which was ar
ranging the data for American partici-
patton in the Third Hague Conven-
ton. He was also appointed about
this time as general counsel for this
republic before the British Claims Com
mission. During the greater part OF
their residence in Washington, Mr.. and
Mrs. Clark lived at 1746 Columbia
road and we're active socially. After
the participation of this Government
with the allies Mrs. Clark took much
interest in the various Red Cross and
canteen projects.
For the past eight years the Under
Lake City and he has established
the reputation of being one of the
most astute lawyers in the Western
country So urgent have been his
affairs that 1t was problematic whether
he could arrange them to become the
successor of Mr.. Robert E. Olds, as
seventh UnderSecretary of State. The
Secretary of State. Mr.. Kellogg, has
emphasized the necessity of having
the incumbent Of this Office, which was
created July /, 1919, with Mr.. Frank
Lyon Polk as the first Undersecretary
on the list, lawyer OF accepted ability
and with a rounded knowledge of in
ternational law and Jurisprudence.
Mr.. Clark is native of Utah. He was
born in Grantsville in 1871 and re-
ceived his primary education in the
public schools of that town. He en-
tered the College of the Latter-Day
Saints in Salt Lake City and after
getting his B. A. degree studied law
in the University of Utah. Soon after
| beginning the practice of law, and at
the same time teaching in the High
School of Heber City, Mr.. Clark mar
| ried Miss Luacine A. Savage of Salt
| Lake City, having met her during his
| college days. There are three chill
dren. all of whom spent their childhood
/ in Washington. attending the Force
/ School until old enough to return to
| Utah to begin collegiate courses. The
eldest, Louise Savage Clark, now Mrs.
/ William Bennion, married in Salt Lake
City and resides there. Joshua Reuben.
/ ir., has been associated with his father
in the law and the second girl. Luacine
J Savage Clark, has just completed her
course at the University of Utah and
will be a welcome addition to the
younger official circle.
The Undersecretary and his wife both
belong to historic pioneer families. He
is the eldest of the seven sons of Joshua
Reuben Clark. who was an associate OF
Brigham Young IN the founding OF
! Utah, and in all the histories Of that
movement he is mentioned as a
patriarch and builder. Joshua Reuben
Clark. ST.. joined the colony Of the
Latter-Day Saints in Ohio in the early
l860s and made the famous journey
across the plains with the first recruits.
He married Mary Louisa Woolley. into
whose family the children of Brigham
Young married and intermarried. An
uncle became a celebrated bishop and
divine in the Mormon councils.
In Salt Lake City Mr.. and Mrs. Clark
will reluctantly close their hoSpitable
! nome and perhaps dismantle 1t for the
Winter. They are prominent socially
there as they '7ere here. Mr.. Clark IS
member of the American Legion and
takes an active part in all its move
ments He was for nearly two years the
associate of Gen. Enoch Crowder, pro-
vost marshal during the World War
and afterward Ambassador to Cuba, and
previously he had aided the Department
Of Justice in framing the laws relating
to aliens
The UnderSecretary and Mrs Clark
are members of the Chevy Chase Club
and will take part in its tennis and
golf. Mr. Clark Joined the Metropolitan
10 years ago and he had been q menu
Der of the Cosmos Club since his first
association with the George Washington
University Both are feryeut members
of the Mormon Church and will be
associated with the Utah Senators and
others of their faith in the erection of
the Mormon Temple at Sixteenth and
Irving streets. now under consideration
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