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JAMES CLARK JR.
Democrat, District 14.
Born in Ellicott City, December 19, 1918. Attended Ellicott City public schools; Iowa State University, B.S., 1941.
General Assembly:
Member, House of Delegates, 1959-63. Member of Senate, 1963-86.
Chair, Agriculture and Natural Resources Committee, 1963-66. Chair,
Executive Nominations Committee, 1967-71. Vice-Chair, Finance Committee,
1971-75; Chair, 1975-78. Member, Legislative Council (now Legislative
Policy Committee), 1971-86. President of the Senate, 1979-83.
Appointed by President Carter as a member of the President's Commission
on Pension Policy. Chair, The National Balance the Budget Amendment
Committee. Member, Economic and Environmental Affairs Committee;
Executive Nominations Committee; Special Joint Committee on Pensions.
Private Career and Other Public Service:
Farmer. Served in U.S. Air Force, 1941-1945; 442nd Troop Carrier
Group, 303rd Squadron. Former Howard County Soil Conservation
District Supervisor. First Vice-President, Constitutional Convention
of Maryland, 1967-68. Member, Maryland Heritage Committee; Golden
Age Card Task Force. Member Rotary; VFW. Author, Jim Clark:
Soldier, Farmer, Legislator. A Memoir. First Citizen Award,
1994.
Personal Comments and Observations:
Senator Clark believes that the most controversial issues he dealt
with in the General Assembly were "money and politics." The most
humorous moments for him in the Senate occurred when so many amendments
were added to bills that they became unrecognizable and the original sponsors
would no longer vote for them. Senator Clark believes that his most
significant contributions to Maryland were Program Open Space and farm
land preservation.
Compiled March 16, 2000 from the biographical files of the Maryland Manual, ©Maryland State Archives and from a telephone interview on February 23, 2000. See also MSA SC 5172 (Clark Collection) containing James A. Clark, Jr., Jim Clark: Soldier, Farmer, Legislator. A Memoir. Baltimore: Gateway Press, 1999.
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