Paul F. Clark
Encyclopedia

Biography

Clark was born Paul Fenimore Clark in Green Bay, Wisconsin
Green Bay, Wisconsin
Green Bay is a city in and the county seat of Brown County in the U.S. state of Wisconsin, located at the head of Green Bay, a sub-basin of Lake Michigan, at the mouth of the Fox River. It has an elevation of above sea level and is located north of Milwaukee. As of the 2010 United States Census,...

 in 1861. His distant relatives included William Cooper
William Cooper (judge)
William Cooper was the founder of Cooperstown, New York and father of writer James Fenimore Cooper, who apparently used his father as the pattern for the Judge Marmaduke Temple character in his book The Pioneers....

, James Fenimore Cooper
James Fenimore Cooper
James Fenimore Cooper was a prolific and popular American writer of the early 19th century. He is best remembered as a novelist who wrote numerous sea-stories and the historical novels known as the Leatherstocking Tales, featuring frontiersman Natty Bumppo...

, and Paul Fenimore Cooper
Paul Fenimore Cooper
Paul Fenimore Cooper was a traveler and author of children's books and non-fiction. He was educated at Taft School, at Yale and at Trinity College, Cambridge...

. Clark died on June 2, 1932 in San Jose, California
San Jose, California
San Jose is the third-largest city in California, the tenth-largest in the U.S., and the county seat of Santa Clara County which is located at the southern end of San Francisco Bay...

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Career

Clark served as a member of the Nebraska House of Representatives, elected in 1905. He was an unsuccessful candidate for U.S. Representative from Nebraska in 1912.
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