Janet H. Clark

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Janet H. Clark Entzel
BornJune 13, 1941
Freeport, Illinois, U.S.
EducationWestminster College (B.A.)
Alma materUniversity of Minnesota (graduate work)
Occupation(s)Former Politician, Educator, Author
Known forService in the Minnesota House of Representatives, Author of "Aka McGuire"
Political partyDemocratic

Janet H. Clark Entzel (born June 13, 1941) is an American former politician.

Clark was born in Freeport, Illinois and graduated from Burley High School in Burley, Idaho. She graduated from Westminster College, in Salt Lake City, Utah with a bachelor's degree in education and music. Clark went to University of Minnesota for graduate work. Clark moved to Minneapolis, Minnesota in 1963. Clark was a teacher and owned a daycare center for children. She also worked for the Minnesota Education Council and the Minnesota Department of Corrections. Clark served in the Minnesota House of Representatives from 1975 to 1984 and was a Democrat. [1]

Janet Clark Entzel has written a novel "Aka McGuire" about the criminal mind. She lived with her husband in Coon Rapids, Minnesota. [2]

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