Multnomah County OR Archives Biographies.....Clark, Alfred Edward August 17, 1873 - 
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     ALFRED EDWARD CLARK, who rendered distinguished service to his country 
during and after the World war, is widely recognized as an authority on 
international and constitutional law, and for more than twenty years has 
successfully followed his profession in Portland. A native of Canada, he was 
born in the province of Ontario, August 17, 1873, and was a lad of six when 
his parents, John and Mary Jane (Caldwell) Clark, settled in Minnesota, where 
the father spent the remainder of his life. The mother still lives in that 
state and has reached the venerable age of eighty-one years.
     Reared on his father’s farm in Redwood county, Minnesota, Alfred E. Clark 
attended the public schools of that locality and later became a teacher. He 
attended the Northwestern Christian College in 1895 and engaged in the private 
study of law in Minnesota. In September, 1896, he was admitted to the bar and 
began his professional career in Mankato, Minnesota, where he resided for nine 
years. In July, 1906, he opened an office in Portland, Oregon, and soon 
established an enviable reputation as a general practitioner. It was in 1911 
that he entered the field of public service as chairman of the charter 
commission of the city of Portland and in the same year was one of the 
commissioners selected to revise the judicial system of Oregon and the modes 
of pleading and procedure, performing his duties with characteristic 
thoroughness and efficiency. In Minnesota he served in the State Militia and 
in September, 1917, became a major in the United States Army. He was made 
assistant judge advocate general and in August, 1919, was honorably discharged 
with the rank of colonel. In September, 1919, he was one of two special 
commissioners appointed by the war department to sit with members of a joint 
board in adjusting war claims and contracts between the United States and 
Canada and Great Britain. One and a half years were devoted to this work of 
international importance and through the efforts of the commissioners war 
claims amounting to several hundred million dollars were satisfactorily 
settled. Colonel Clark is learned in the science of his profession and has 
written a number of articles and monographs on international an constitutional 
law.
     In March, 1918, Colonel Clark was united in marriage to Miss Dehlia E. 
Wagner of Portland, and their attractive home is a center of the social and 
cultural life of the city. Colonel Clark is an adherent of the republican 
party and manifests a keen interest in matters of public moment. Formerly he 
was a civil service commissioner and now acts as chairman of the telephone 
investigating committee. He is also chairman of the Tongue Point naval base 
committee and an enthusiastic booster of aviation. Along fraternal lines he is 
identified with the Knights of Pythias, the Benevolent Protective Order of 
Elks, the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, and is a Knight Templar Mason and 
Shriner. Through his affiliation with the Chamber of Commerce he is working 
earnestly and systematically for Portland’s growth and development. He also 
belongs to the Multnomah Athletic Club, and to the National Republican Club 
and the Army & Navy Club, both of New York city. Studious and industrious, 
Colonel Clark has constantly broadened his field of usefulness, and his 
notable success in the legal profession proves that he has chosen the vocation 
for which nature intended him.


Additional Comments:
History of the Columbia River Valley From The Dalles to the Sea, Vol. II, 
Pages 353-354

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