David Worth Clark, served from 1939 to 1945

David Worth Clark was born in Idaho Falls, in Bonneville County, Idaho on April 2, 1902. He attended the public schools and graduated from the University of Notre Dame in South Bend, Indiana, in 1922. He then attended Harvard University where he received his law degree in 1925. He was admitted to the bar that same year and commenced practice in Pocatello, Idaho.

From 1933 until 1935, Clark was assistant attorney general of Idaho. He was then elected as a Democrat to the Seventy-fourth and Seventy-fifth Congresses (January 3, 1935-January 3, 1939). He did not seek re-nomination in 1938, having become a candidate for United States Senator. He was then elected in 1938 to the United States Senate and served from January 3, 1939, to January 3, 1945.

In 1944 he was unsuccessful in getting the re-nomination as candidate for Senate and resumed the practice of law in Boise, Idaho, and Washington, D.C.

Clark moved to Los Angeles, California, in November 1954 where he was interested in broadcasting and banking. He died in Los Angeles, California on June 19, 1955. He is interred at Holy Cross Cemetery in Culver City California.

Photos provided by the Idaho State Historical Society.  Biographical information compiled by Congressional Research Service.