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HERBERT
WATSON CLARK
Herbert
Watson Clark, attorney, was born in Crockett County, Tennessee, on August 28,
1882. The son of John Samuel and Nancy Clara (Watson) Clark.
His preparatory education was
obtained at both public and private schools in New Mexico and University of
Michigan, receiving the A.B. degree in 1905 and the A.M. degree in 1906.
Received his legal education at University of Michigan, obtaining his LL.B.
degree in 1908 (honorary LL.D. degree, 1935), and was admitted to the New
Mexico bar in 1908 and the California bar in 1917.
Mr. Clark was in general practice of
law at Las Vegas, New Mexico, from 1908 to 1916; assistant United States
Attorney for New Mexico from 1909 to 1913; chairman of Republican State Central
Committee of New Mexico from 1912 to 1914. Removed to San Francisco,
California, where he has been in practice of the law since 1917. He was
associated with the firm of Morrison, Dunne & Brobeck
from 1918 to 1925, partner in the firm from 1921 to 1925; member of the firm of
Morrison, Hohfeld, Foerster,
Shuman & Clark since January 1925. He served as special assistant to
Attorney General of the United States from 1927 to 1928; director of several
companies; member of the Board of Managers, School of American Research of
Archeological Institute of America.
Member of the American Bar
Association (chairman of Section of Legal Education, 1948-49), State Bar of
California (member of Committee of Bar Examiners, 1938-42, and chairman,
1941-42), San Francisco Bar Association, State Bar of New Mexico; life member
Pan American Society (president of San Francisco Chapter, 1946-47); Academy of
Political Science; American Law Institute; American Judicature Society; Phi
Beta Kappa and Sigma Phi Fraternities; Masonic Lodge (32nd degree);
and the following clubs: Bohemian, Pacific Union (San Francisco); University
(New York City); Episcopalian.
Mr. Clark married Jeannette L. Arue on June 16, 1909; children: Barbara (Mrs. James Page Blaisdell), born in 1912; Herbert Watson, Jr., born in 1915
(now deceased).
Home: 2000 Washington Street, San Francisco 9,
California.
Offices: Crocker Building, San Francisco 4,
California.
Transcribed By: Cecelia M. Setty.
Source: “Eminent Californians 1953”,
by Lee E. Johnson & C. W. Taylor. Page 305, C. W. Taylor
Publ., Palo Alto, California, 1953.
© 2014 Cecelia M. Setty.
San Francisco County Biographies