death_place death_date birth_place birth_date article_title name
chicago , illinois 27 december 1952 martintown , ontario 18 april 1889 clifford clark
 clifford clark
clifford clark

clifford clark -lrb- april 18 , 1889 -- december 27 , 1952 -rrb- was a canadian professor , economist and civil servant .
he earned his m.a. from queen 's university receiving honours in latin , french , english , history and political and economic science and did graduate studies in economics with f. w. taussig at harvard .
he returned to teach at queen 's in 1915 were he became the first head of the commerce program in 1919 .
in 1921 , clark left to work for american investment firm s. w. straus and company , returning to queen 's after the company went bankrupt in the great depression .
at the instigation of oscar d. skelton , clark wrote a well-received memorandum on monetary policy for the 1932 british empire economic conference in ottawa .
shortly afterwards , he was appointed deputy minister in the department of finance by r. b. bennett , a position he held until his death in 1952 .
as deputy minister , he helped to establish the bank of canada in 1934 , chaired the wwii economic advisory committee , and helped convince mackenzie king to adopt the 1944 family allowance bill .
