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Clark, Charles Edward

Born December 9, 1889, in Woodbridge, CT
Died December 13, 1963, in Hamden, CT

Federal Judicial Service:
Judge, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
Nominated by Franklin D. Roosevelt on January 5, 1939, to a new seat authorized by 52 Stat. 584. Confirmed by the Senate on March 7, 1939, and received commission on March 9, 1939. Served as chief judge, 1954-1959. Service terminated on December 13, 1963, due to death.

Education:
Yale College, B.A., 1911
Yale Law School, LL.B., 1913

Professional Career:

Private practice, New Haven, Connecticut, 1913-1919
State representative, Connecticut, 1917-1918
Professor of law, Yale Law School, 1919-1929
Deputy judge, Hamden [Connecticut] Town Court, 1927-1931
Sterling professor of law and dean, Yale Law School, 1929-1939
Special assistant attorney general, Antitrust Division, U.S. Department of Justice, 1938
Visiting lecturer in law, Yale University, 1951-1963
Member, Judicial Conference of the United States, 1954-1959

Bibliography

Petruck, Peninah, ed. Judge Charles Edward Clark. New York: Oceana Publications, 1991.

Manuscript Collections

Harvard Law School
Cambridge, Mass.
Michael Smith and Herbert Packer Research Materials on the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, 1910-1972.
Compiled for a book Smith and Packer planned on writing about the court. The collection is focused on Judges Learned Hand, Augustus Hand, Jerome Frank, Charles Clark, Thomas Swan, and Julian Mack. The materials include court opinions, interviews, research materials, collected writings and speeches, and some of Augustus Hand's correspondence.

Yale Law School
New Haven, Conn.
Charles Edward Clark photographs and clippings, 1929-1963; 1 box.

Yale University
Sterling Memorial Library
New Haven, Conn.
Charles Edward Clark papers, 1905-1968.
59.75 linear ft. (145 boxes); finding aid; collection contains Clark's personal correspondence, his files for the Committee on Rules for Civil Procedure, as well as his case and motion files, docket books, and correspondence from the U.S. court of appeals.

Portraits

Charles Edward Clark; by Kaiden Kazanjian; Photograph; n.d.; Legal Portrait Collection, Harvard Law School Library, Cambridge, Mass., record identifier: olvwork176465. Reference image courtesy of Historical & Special Collections, Harvard Law School Library. Further reproduction prohibited without permission of the library.

Additional images:

Judge Charles E. Clark (1889-1963); by Franklin Chenault Watkins; Oil on canvas; 1959; Yale University Law School, New Haven, Conn., ref. #: U.1959.7.

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