| | 1 | Name: | Daniel Clark | | | Year Elected: | 1769 | | | Residency: | Resident | | | Living? : |
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| | | Birth Date: | 1766 | | | Death Date: | 8/13/1813 | | | | | | |
Daniel Clark (1766–13 August 1813) was a merchant, slaveholder, and diplomat, and a member of the American Philosophical Society, elected in 1769. Born in Ireland to a wealthy family, he was educated in England before hard times hit Ireland, and the Clarks moved to Germantown, Pennsylvania. Thereafter, Daniel Clark took up a position in his wealthy uncle’s counting house in New Orleans, Louisiana. Quickly earning a partnership in the firm and becoming a respected member of French society, Clark was able to build a relationship with the provincial Spanish government. His political connections enabled him to circumvent strict Spanish trade regulations and greatly benefit both him and his American trading partners. In 1798, he became vice-consul to New Orleans, sending reports to Thomas Jefferson and James Madison about the goings-on in the provincial Spanish government. When the Spanish cut off New Orleans’ port to American traders, he advocated for immediate American intervention to secure Louisiana's planned transfer to the French. Utilizing his connections with the French elite there, he was able to do just that. During this turbulent time, he grew suspicious of William Charles Coles Claiborne, governor of the Mississippi Territory. He refused service on the governor's council in 1804, which was taken as an insult by Claiborne. Clark and Claiborne’s feud escalated: grievances regarding Claiborne’s leadership were submitted to Congress and led to the establishment of an elective legislature for Louisiana, which seemed only to worsen the gridlock between Clark and Governor Claiborne. In spite of Claiborne, the Louisiana legislature elected Clark as a delegate to Congress in 1806, wherein he advocated for Claiborne’s removal. Thereafter, Governor Claiborne challenged Clark to a duel and was subsequently wounded by the victorious Clark. Clark’s political career would end not long after that; his criticism of General James Wilkinson and association with Aaron Burr led to his condemnation by Thomas Jefferson. He continued to run his merchant business until retiring to one of his plantations and dying shortly after that. (ANB) | |
| 2 | Name: | Sir James Clark | | | Year Elected: | 1845 | | | Residency: | International | | | Living? : |
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| 3 | Name: | Alvan Clark | | | Year Elected: | 1880 | | | Residency: | Resident | | | Living? : |
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| | | Birth Date: | 1803 | | | Death Date: | 8/22/1887 | | | | |
| 4 | Name: | Clarance H. Clark | | | Year Elected: | 1889 | | | Residency: | Resident | | | Living? : |
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| | | Birth Date: | 1833 | | | Death Date: | 3/13/06 | | | | |
| 5 | Name: | William B. Clark | | | Year Elected: | 1902 | | | Residency: | Resident | | | Living? : |
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| | | Birth Date: | 1860 | | | Death Date: | 7/27/17 | | | | |
| 6 | Name: | William M. Clark | | | Year Elected: | 1939 | | | Class: | 2. Biological Sciences | | | Residency: | Resident | | | Living? : |
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| | | Birth Date: | 1885 | | | Death Date: | 1/19/64 | | | | |
| 7 | Name: | John M. Clark | | | Year Elected: | 1944 | | | Class: | 3. Social Sciences | | | Residency: | Resident | | | Living? : |
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| | | Birth Date: | 1885 | | | Death Date: | 6/27/63 | | | | |
| 8 | Name: | W.E. Le Gros Clark | | | Year Elected: | 1960 | | | Residency: | International | | | Living? : |
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| | | Birth Date: | 1895 | | | Death Date: | 6/28/71 | | | | |
| 9 | Name: | Mr. George R. Clark | | | Institution: | Girard Bank (now Mellon Bank) | | | Year Elected: | 1967 | | | Class: | 5. The Arts, Professions, and Leaders in Public & Private Affairs | | | Subdivision: | 503. Administrators, Bankers and Opinion Leaders from the Public or Private Sectors | | | Residency: | Resident | | | Living? : |
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| | | Birth Date: | 1910 | | | Death Date: | 6/15/98 | | | | |
| 10 | Name: | Hon. Joseph S. Clark | | | Institution: | U.S. Senate | | | Year Elected: | 1976 | | | Class: | 5. The Arts, Professions, and Leaders in Public & Private Affairs | | | Residency: | Resident | | | Living? : |
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| | | Birth Date: | 1901 | | | Death Date: | 1/12/90 | | | | |
| 11 | Name: | Dr. Timothy J. Clark | | | Institution: | University of California, Berkeley | | | Year Elected: | 2007 | | | Class: | 4. Humanities | | | Subdivision: | 401. Archaeology | | | Residency: | Resident | | | Living? : |
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| | | Birth Date: | 1943 | | | | | | |
T. J. Clark was born in Bristol, England in 1943, took a B.A. in modern history at Cambridge, and a Ph.D. in art history at the Courtauld Institute, University of London. He has taught at a number of institutions in England and the U.S., including the Universities of Leeds and Essex, Camberwell School of Art, UCLA, Harvard, and, since 1988, the University of California, Berkeley, where he is George C. and Helen N. Pardee Chair and Professor of Modern Art. He is the author of a series of books on the social character and formal dynamics of modern art, including The Absolute Bourgeois: Artists and Politics in France 1848-1851 (1973); Image of the People: Gustave Courbet and the 1848 Revolution (1973); The Painting of Modern Life: Paris in the Art of Manet and his Followers (1984); and Farewell to an Idea: Episodes from a History of Modernism (1999). In Spring 2005 Verso published a polemical analysis of the present crisis in world politics written by him jointly with Iain Boal, Joseph Matthews, and Michael Watts (a.k.a. "Retort"), entitled Afflicted Powers: Capital and Spectacle in a New Age of War. Clark's latest book is The Sight of Death: An Experiment in Art Writing (2006), an extended study of two paintings by Nicolas Poussin, Landscape with a Calm in the Getty Museum, Los Angeles, and Landscape with a Man Killed by a Snake in the National Gallery, London. | |
| 12 | Name: | Dr. Robin J. H. Clark | | | Institution: | University College London | | | Year Elected: | 2010 | | | Class: | 1. Mathematical and Physical Sciences | | | Subdivision: | 102. Chemistry and Chemical Biochemistry | | | Residency: | International | | | Living? : |
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| | | Birth Date: | 1935 | | | Death Date: | December 6, 2018 | | | | | | |
Robin Clark’s work employing Raman microscopy changed the thinking of art historians and conservators on much artwork and many archaeological artifacts. His identification of the blue pigment on the priceless Lindisfarne Gospels (715 AD) in the British Library as solely indigo, not lazurite, removed the need for the then (2004) current but improbable proposition that trade in lazurite from Afghanistan to Northumbria existed in 715 AD; in fact we know from Clark’s work that it was not established until more than two centuries later. The identification of key pigments on "Young Woman Seated on a Virginal" provided persuasive evidence consistent with a reattribution of this painting to Vermeer, in consequence of which it was sold in London for 30 million dollars in 2004. However, many Egyptian papyri supposedly worth $3 million each and dating to 1250 BC were easily identified to have been illuminated with at least 7 modern pigments, including copper phthalocyanine blue (first made in Manchester in 1936); they thus proved to be virtually worthless. Robin Clark was elected a member of the American Philosophical Society in 2010. He died in London on December 6, 2018 at the age of 83. | |
| 13 | Name: | J.I. Clark Hare | | | Year Elected: | 1842 | | | Residency: | Resident | | | Living? : |
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| | | Death Date: | 11/27/1876 | | | | |
| 14 | Name: | Dr. F. Clark Howell | | | Institution: | University of California, Berkeley | | | Year Elected: | 1975 | | | Class: | 2. Biological Sciences | | | Subdivision: | 203. Evolution & Ecology, Systematics, Population Genetics, Paleontology, and Physical Anthropology | | | Residency: | Resident | | | Living? : |
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| | | Birth Date: | 1925 | | | Death Date: | March 10, 2007 | | | | |
| 15 | Name: | Clark Wissler | | | Year Elected: | 1924 | | | Class: | 2. Biological Sciences | | | Residency: | Resident | | | Living? : |
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| | | Birth Date: | 1870 | | | Death Date: | 8/25/47 | | | | |
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