James Orville Clark | |
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President pro tempore of the Mississippi State Senate | |
In office January 1952 –January 1956 | |
Preceded by | Oscar O. Wolfe |
Succeeded by | Earl Evans Jr. |
Member of the Mississippi State Senate from the 37th district | |
In office January 1948 –January 1956 | |
Member of the MississippiHouseofRepresentatives from the Tishomingo County district | |
In office January 1940 –January 1944 | |
Personal details | |
Born | Belmont,Mississippi,U.S. | August 2,1910
Died | November 17,1971 61) Tishomingo County,Mississippi,U.S. | (aged
Political party | Democratic |
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 [1] and Mississippi Senate. [2] [3]
James Orville Clark was born on August 2,1910,in Belmont,Mississippi. [4] He was a lawyer. [4] He represented Tishomingo County in the Mississippi House of Representatives from 1940 to 1944. [1] [5] He then served in the Mississippi State Senate,representing the 37th District,from 1948 to 1956. [4] 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. [8]
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