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Edward A. Clark
eral of Texas from 1932 to 1935 and assistant to Gov. James Allred
from 1935 to 1937. He was appointed Texas's secretary of state in 1937,
when he was only thirty years old.
In December 1938, Edward Clark and Everett Looney set up the law
firm of Looney & Clark. It evolved into the present firm of Clark,
Thomas, Winters & Newton, comprising more than eighty attorneys.
Clark maintained extensive interests in the banking industry, serv-
ing as senior chairman of the board of Texas Commerce Bank-Austin,
for thirteen years as Texas Commerce Bank-Houston director, and
since 1977 as a Texas Commerce Bancshares board member. He also
sat on the governing boards of the San Benito Bank & Trust Com-
pany, the First National Bank of San Augustine, the Employers' Na-
tional Life Insurance Company, and the Employers' Casualty Insur-
ance Company.
A man of tremendous vision and foresight, Clark was mentor and
advisor to three generations of political leaders, including the afore-
mentioned Lyndon Johnson.
His civic and community activities included serving on the Board of
Regents of the University of Texas System from 1973 to 1979 and for
many years as a trustee of both Southwestern University in George-
town and the University of Texas Law Foundation.
He was a fund-raiser extraordinaire. The Handbook of Texas was his
special project. He was one of" the first to recognize the need for a
complete revision of these volumes in order that they would continue
to be useful to the people of Texas in the coming decades. He served
as chair of the development committee for the revised Handbook, and
his many friends and contacts were an invaluable boon in the monu-
mental endeavor.
In addition to his efforts for the Handbook, he was instrumental in
raising over $6 million for Southwestern University; chaired the com-
mittee which raised $8 million to restore the Ashbel Smith Building
for the University of Texas Medical School in Galveston; cochaired a
$2 million campaign for the Lady Bird Johnson Fund to benefit the
LBJ Library; organized the effort to finance construction of the State
Bar of Texas headquarters; raised funds to purchase the telescope at
the McDonald Observatory in Fort Davis; and, always interested in a
good Texas history project, helped the Texas State Historical Associa-
tion raise the funds necessary to publish William H. Emory's three-
volume Report on the Unzted States and Mexuan Boundary Survey, one of
the Association's most successful publications.
Among the many honors bestowed on Ambassador Clark was the
Ima How Historical Achievement Award. Edward Clark fulfilled the3 3
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