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Joshua Reuben Clark, Jr. (September 1, 1871 – October 6, 1961) was an American attorney, civil servant, and a prominent leader in The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church). Born in Grantsville, Utah Territory, Clark was a prominent attorney in the Department of State, and Under Secretary of State for U.S. president Calvin Coolidge. In 1930 Clark was appointed United States Ambassador to Mexico. He received a bachelor's degree from the University of Utah, where he was valedictorian and student-body president. Clark received a law degree from Columbia University where he also became a member of Phi Delta Phi, a prominent international legal fraternity in which he remained active throughout his life. He later became an associate professor at George Washington University. Both the J. Reuben Clark Law Society and the J. Reuben Clark Law School at Brigham Young University (BYU) are named in his honor.〔(J. Reuben Clark Law School about page )〕 ==Childhood and youth== Clark was the first of ten children born to Joshua R. and Mary Louisa Woolley Clark. He was born and raised in Grantsville, Utah, located thirty-three miles southwest of Salt Lake City in Tooele Valley, a four-hour trip by buggy and train from Grantsville to Salt Lake at the time. The Latter-day Saints who settled the area were industrious and community-oriented.〔J. Reuben Clark, Sr., journal, Vol. 12, 9 December 1885〕 As a break from farm work, Clark participated in dramatic productions from his youth. He displayed a talent for public speaking, comedy, and humor at a young age. Clark also participated in the childhood diversions available on the frontier, sledding in the winter and swimming in the summer. Clark's grandfather had been a minister in the Dunker Faith (Church of the Brethren). Clark's father, Joshua, had worked his way west through Utah as a trapper and freighter and felt drawn to the LDS Church after attending his first Sunday service, being baptized a month afterward. Education and culture were important in the Mormon communities in the Utah Territory (later the State of Utah). Clark's father, although accustomed to hard physical labor, was also reputed to be a knowledgeable, culturally-oriented man. He was hired soon after his baptism to teach school in Grantsville. Shortly after moving there from Salt Lake, he married Mary Louisa Woolley, who was born on the plains as her parents made their way west with the Mormon Pioneers. Joshua was the sort of man who, while doing business in Salt Lake, would sleep in a hay loft in order to afford to see a Shakespearean play, and would make great sacrifices to afford to buy a good book.〔J Reuben Clark, Sr., Journal, Vol. 9, 1883.〕 The small library in the Clark home was made up of history books, classics, an encyclopedia, the Bible, plus other religious works of the LDS Church. Although the younger Clark's education was spotty in his youth, due to the demands of farm life and meager family resources, he was able to take music lessons and to play with various bands. He played the piccolo and then the flute.〔J. Reuben Clark, Sr., Journal, Vol. 16, 5 July 1890〕 Clark's father became the clerk, then superintendent of the Grantsville educational co-operative, was elected the Tooele County Superintendent of Schools in 1878,〔J. Reuben Clark, Sr., Journal, Vol. 1, 30 March 1879〕 became president of the Tooele County Education Association, and by 1879 was assessor and tax collector, with his two eldest sons helped with the accounting and record-keeping.〔Clark, Joshua R., Sr., personal journal, edited by David H. Yarn, Jr., Vol. 15 June 1889.〕 When his father later taught at a local private school, Clark was able to be formally educated for the first time. He was ten years old, and in the past had been schooled by his mother. Clark was not at school every term. Sometimes, financial difficulties and farm work kept him at home. His father once related that Clark would “rather miss his meals than to miss a day from school.” After completing the eighth grade, the highest grade offered at the Grantsville school, Clark repeated it two more times. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「J. Reuben Clark」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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