James Orville Clark | |
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![]() c. 1949 | |
President pro tempore of the Mississippi State Senate | |
In office January 1952 – January 1956 | |
Preceded by | Oscar O. Wolfe |
Succeeded by | Earl Evans Jr. |
Member of the Mississippi State Senate from the 37th district | |
In office January 1948 – January 1956 | |
Member of the Mississippi House of Representatives from the Tishomingo County district | |
In office January 1940 – January 1944 | |
Personal details | |
Born | Belmont, Mississippi, U.S. | August 2, 1910
Died | November 17, 1971 Tishomingo County, Mississippi, U.S. | (aged 61)
Political party | Democratic |
James Orville "Click" Clark (August 2, 1910 - November 17, 1971) was an American lawyer and Democratic politician. He served in the Mississippi House of Representatives[1] and Mississippi Senate.[2][3]
James Orville Clark was born on August 2, 1910, in Belmont, Mississippi.[4] He was a lawyer.[4] He represented Tishomingo County in the Mississippi House of Representatives from 1940 to 1944.[1][5] He then served in the Mississippi State Senate, representing the 37th District, from 1948 to 1956.[4] At the start of the 1952 session, Clark was elected to be the senate's president pro tempore for the 1952-1956 term.[6] In 1955, Clark unsuccessfully ran for the Democratic nomination for the office of lieutenant governor of Mississippi.[7][8] On the night of November 17, 1971, Clark and three others were killed in a twin-engine airplane crash near Iuka, Mississippi.[8]