1873, English, Unpublished edition: Clarkana Papers of Joshua Ruben Clark, Jr. Clark, J. Reuben (Joshua Reuben), 1871-1961

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  • 220 linear feet (ca. 140, 000 items).
  • Diaries, Letters, Notes, Speeches, addresses, etc. Articles
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  • L. Tom Perry Special Collections
  • 1873-1962
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  • English

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Title
  • Clarkana Papers of Joshua Ruben Clark, Jr.
Creator
  • Clark, J. Reuben (Joshua Reuben), 1871-1961
Published
  • L. Tom Perry Special Collections
  • 1873-1962
Physical Description
  • 220 linear feet (ca. 140, 000 items).
  • Diaries, Letters, Notes, Speeches, addresses, etc. Articles
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  • Educator, lawyer, statesman, and Mormon Church leader. ; Correspondence, diaries, drafts of writings, speeches, articles, notes, photographs, and other papers relating to Clark's career in government as Solicitor for the Dept. of State, U.S. Ambassador to Mexico, and Under Secretary of State, and his activities as a member of the First Presidency of the Mormon Church. The collection includes material relating to constitutional freedom, diplomacy, international law, the League of Nations, the Monroe Doctrine, Mormon Church doctrine and theology, and the United Nations. Correspondents include Warren G. Harding, Herbert Hoover, Alfred Landon, and various cabinet officers and senators in the United States federal government. ; 1871Born at Grantsville, Utah, Sept. 1, 1871, the son of Joshua Reuben and Mary Louisa Woolley Clark.1891-1898Clerk for Curator of Deseret Museum. (In the words of Elder James E. Talmage, the curator, this was to be considered as a foreign mission.)1894-1898Did six years work in four at the University of Utah, and being awarded a Bachelor of Science degree.1898Married Luacine Annetta Savage, Sept. 14, in Salt Lake Temple1898-1899Principal, Heber City High School1899-1900Teacher of English and Latin, Latter-day Saints College, Salt Lake City.1900-1901Acting Principal, Southern Branch, State Normal School, Cedar City, Utah.1902-1903Principal, Salt Lake Business College.1903Began at Columbia University Law School.1905Admitted to New York Bar.1906Received LL.B. degree, having specialized in mining law.1906-1910Assistant solicitor for the department of state.1907-1908Assistant professor of law, George Washington University, Washington, D.C.1910-1913Solicitor for the department of state.1911Admitted to practice before the Supreme Court of the United States.1911Admitted as a member of the bar to the Court of Claims.1911Appointed member of committee to report on assistance of Red Cross Societies in Civil Warfare.1912Appointed chairman of American Preparatory Committee to represent the United States on the International Preparatory Committee for the Third Hague Conference.1912Member, American Society for Judicial Settlement of International Disputes.1913Appointed counsel for United States before Tribunal of Arbitration under Special Agreement of August 18, 1910, between the United States and Great Britain. ($5,000,000.00 claims)1913-1921Private Law Practice in New York and Washington D.C.1914Counsel in Charge of United State Agency, American-British Claims Arbitration.1917Commissioned Major in the Judge Advocate General's Officers' Reserve Corps, assigned for service to the Attorney General of the United States, at the latter's request.1918Awarded three silver war service chevrons and the distinguished service medal.1918Author, Emergency Legislation and War Powers of the President.1919-1920Active in League of Nations controversy.1921Special counsel for department of state, conference on the limitation of armament, Washington, D.C.1921-1926Private Practice, Salt Lake City.1922 &​ 1928Utah Republican nominee for U.S. Senate (defeated by Bamberger)1923Chairman, New York committee, Outlawry of War.1925Appointed to the general board, Young Men's Mutual Improvement Association.1925Consulting counsel for the federal government in the Cayuga Indian case - American-British claims commission - claims of nearly $1,000,000.00.1926Agent of United States, General Claims Commission, United States and Mexico.1927-1928Legal adviser to Ambassador Dwight W. Morrow, Mexico.1928Author, Memorandum of the Monroe Doctrine.1928-1929Under secretary of State.1930Special representative, with rank of Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, at inauguration of Pascual Ortiz Rubio, President of Mexico.1930-1933Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the United States to Mexico.1933Sustained as Second Counselor in the First Presidency, April 6.1933Named member of Board of Trustees of Brigham Young University.1933Delegate of the United States to the Seventh International Conference of American States (Pan-American Conference) Montevideo, Uruguay.1934Received an honorary LL.D., June 5, University of Utah.1934-1938President, Foreign Bondholders Protective Council, Inc.1934Sustained an Apostle and as First Counselor in the First Presidency, Oct. 6.1934Ordained an Apostle by President Heber J. Grant, Oct. 11.1934-1953President, Director of K.S.L. radio station; Vice President and Director of Z.C.M.I.1936United States representative on Committee for the study of International Loan Contracts (League of Nations).1938-1945Chairman, Executive Committee, Foreign Bondholders Protective Council, Inc.1945Sustained as first Counselor to President George Albert Smith, May 21.1945-1950Member Commission of Experts on Codification of International Law, Phi Delta Phi.1948Elected Trustee, The Foundation for Economic Education, Inc., Irvingron-on-Hudson, New York, May 18.1949Elected Vice-President, Utah First National Bank, Jan. 11.1949Elected Vice-President, Utah Hotel Company, Feb. 23.1950Awarded Distinguished Service medal by Tooele County Chamber of Commerce, "in recognition of his outstanding achievements in the public life of our nation and as a member of the L.D.S. First Presidency," May 5.1950Elected Member, Board of Trustees, The Roosevelt Memorial Association, Theodore Roosevelt House, 28 East 20th st., New York City, Oct. 27.1951Sustained as Second Counselor in the First Presidency of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Apr. 9. David O. McKay, President Stephen L. Richards, First Counselor1951Set Apart as Second Counselor in the First Presidency by President David O. McKay, Apr. 12.1951Appointed Member and Chairman of the "This is the Place" Monument Commission, May 18, by Governor J. Bracken Lee.1952Elected Vice-President, Zion's Savings Bank and Trust Company, Jan. 8.1952Elected Vice-President, Utah-Idaho Sugar Co., Apr. 20.1952Awarded Honorary Doctor of Laws, June 2, Brigham Young University.1953Award by Pi Sigma Alpha, national fraternity for political science, B.Y.U. Chapter, May 11, for exceptional service and outstanding contributions in the field of political science and government.1953Cited by Foreign Bondholders Protective Council when resigned.1957Received citation for "great contribution" to Utah cattle industry from Utah Cattlemen, Utah Hereford Association, Intermountain Hereford Breeders Association, Dec. 13.1958Utah Wool Growers Association honored him, Jan. 8, for "outstanding and meritorious service to the livestock men of Utah and the West."1958Acclaimed for humanitarian service at retirement dinner given him by Equitable Life Assurance Society after 25 Years service as director, Dec.1961Died Oct. 6, at residence, 80 D St., Salt Lake City.1962Brigham Young University Library was dedicated and named after J. Reuben Clark, Jr., Oct. 10.Service Assignments Under Seven Presidents of United States(2)THEODORE ROOSEVELTAssistant Solicitor for the State Department, 1906-1910WILLIAM HOWARD TAFTSolicitor for the State Department, 1910-1913Member of Committee to Report on Assistance of Red Cross Societies in Civil Welfare, 1911Counsel for the United States before the Tribunal of Arbitration Between the United States and Great BritainChairman of American Preparatory Committee for the Third Hague Conference and Member of the Conference, 1912WOODROW WILSONSpecial Counsel for the United States before the British-American Claims Arbitration Tribunal, 1913Counsel in Charge of the United States Agency of the British-American Claims Arbitration, 1914Major, Judge Advocate General's Officers Reserve Corps., 1917WARREN G. HARDINGSpecial Counsel for the State Department at the Conference on the Limitation of Armament, 1921CALVIN COOLIDGEConsulting Counsel for the Federal Government in the Cayuga Indian Case, American-British Claims Commission, Claims of nearly $1,000,000.00, 1925Agent of the United States in the Mexican-American General Claims Commission, 1926Special Counsel to the Mixed Claims Commission of the United States and Mexico.Undersecretary of State, 1928-1929HERBERT HOOVERAttended Inauguration of Mexican President Pascual Ortiz Rubio, 1930Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary to Mexico, 1930-1933FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELTDelegate to the Seventh International Conference of American States at Montevideo, Uruguay, 1933Member Foreign Bondholders Protective Council, Inc., 1934-1945United States Representative on Committee for the Study of International Loan Contracts (League of Nations), 1936Member, Committee of Experts on Codification of International Law (Pan America Union), 1936BOOKS AUTHORED BY J. REUBEN CLARK, JR.Behold the Lamb of God, Salt Lake City, Deseret Book Company, 1962.Memorandum on the Monroe Doctrine, Washington, Govt. Printing Office, 1930On the Way to Immortality and Eternal Life, Salt Lake City, Deseret Book Company, 1949 and 1950Our Lord of the Gospels, Salt Lake City, Deseret Book Company, 1954 and 1957Stand Fast by Our Constitution, Salt Lake City, Deseret Book Company, 1962To Them of the Last Wagon (Conference address, Oct. 5, 1947), Salt Lake City, Deseret News, 1950."Wist Ye Not That I Must Be About My Fathers Business?" [Salt Lake City] Reprinted by permission of the Relief Society Magazine [n.d.]Why the King James Version, Salt Lake City, Utah [n.p.] 1956(The above volumes are located in Container 495 in the Clarkana collection)PARENTS OF JOSHUA REUBEN CLARK, JR.Johua Reuben Clark, Sr. - FatherMary Louisa Wooley - MotherBROTHERS AND SISTERS OF JOSHUA REUBEN CLARK, JR.Joshua Reuben, Jr. - 1871Edwin Marcellus - 1874Elmer Dale Woolley - 1876Mary Esther (Mrs. Arthur Naylor - divorced) - 1878Frank Rinker, Sr. - 1881Alice May Woolley (Mrs. Hyrum LeRoy Sutton) - 1883Samuel Woolley - 1886Lucile Rebecca (Mrs. Theodore Reginald Johnson) - 1888John Woolley - 1890Gordon Woolley - 1893WIFE AND CHILDREN OF JOSHUA REUBEN CLARK, JR.Luacine Annetta Savage Clark, daughter of Charles Roscoe Savage (pioneer Utah photographer) and Annie Adkins.Annie Louise Clark (Mrs. Mervyn Sharp Bennion)Marianne Savage Clark (Mrs. Ivor Sharp)Joshua Reuben Clark, IIILuacine Savage Clark (Mrs. Orval Clyde Fox)Footnotes:(1) Compiled from Improvement Era (August, 1951, page 594) through 1945. Later data was obtained from biographical material in J.R.C. collection, container #472 and 473.(2) Extracted from the Deseret News and Telegram, Salt Lake City, Saturday, October 7, 1961. The Clarkana Papers of Joshua Reuben Clark, Jr., spans the years 1873 to 1961, but the bulk and most significant part of the collection extends from 1893 to 1961. A portion of the papers represented by Clark's creativity in his writings and speech making was originally termed "Clarkana." After appraising all the papers the archivist arbitrarily titled the entire collection, "The Clarkana Papers." The collection is divided into two major periods of Clark's endeavors: Education, Law and Government Service Period and the Church Service Period. Of significant interest during the first period are the correspondence, documental and speech article and remarks which pertain to J.R.C.'s endeavors in government and diplomatic service as solicitor of state, undersecretary of state, and ambassador to Mexico; as an international lawyer, and in his candidacy for U.S. Senator for Utah.The entire collection has considerable material on the League of Nations and the United Nations and J.R.C.'s reservations concerning some of the provisions of the same including an unpublished memorandum on the latter. There is probably sufficient material for a published volume on Clark's views on world government. Also noteworthy is considerable material on the Monroe Doctrine.The Church Service Period contains extensive correspondence, addresses and articles, and LDS Conference files which were created by President Clark while serving as a member of the First Presidency of the LDS Church. Manuscripts of President Clark's published and unpublished works on theology, his subject file of background material, tape recordings of addresses, photograph file and mementoes also reflect richly his church endeavors. Of particular interest is a letter describing the disinterring of the bodies of Prophet Joseph Smith and Hyrum Smith as found in the Biographies and Writings file of his wife, Luacine Savage Clark.Other papers reflect his interest in business and civic affairs, farming, and national affairs. A noteworthy file in the Biographies, Histories and Family Papers section is material in depth on the Pearl Harbor Investigation. Among the nationally known correspondents who communicated with Clark are such names as Herbert Hoover, Lowell Thomas, Alfred Landon, Utah congressmen and governors; Senators William E. Borah, Arthur H. Vandenberg, Everett Dirksen, and Dwight W. Morrow; Cordell Hull, John Foster Dulles, Thomas E. Dewey, Frank B. Kellog, Walter Lippman, Elihu Root, Warren G. Harding, Charles Evans Hughes, and Philander C. Knox. There is also considerable correspondence with various LDS Church Leaders.Also of interest are twelve volumes of scrapbooks, 1891-1961, containing clippings primarily of President Clark's activities, but also of other members of the First Presidency of the LDS Church, members of his family, and associates.The Original indexes, in the collection known as the "Clarkana Index" and the "Correspondence Index" are related to much of the material in the Correspondence, Speech, Article and Remarks , and Documental sections of the collection, but were not adaptable for use in this register. They are further described in the register in Section VI.The dates which appear in the register for each container heading are those representing the material within the container rather than the period of time J.R.C. was engaged in a particular activity or assignment. - SECTION I -EDUCATION, LAW AND GOVERNMENT SERVICE PERIOD:Containers 1-45: CORRESPONDENCE FILE, 1873-1938 Letters sent and received, some memoranda, reports, press clippings, etc. Chronologically arranged by subject or endeavor. Folder titles and code numbers were devised by J.R.C. staff under the original series titled "Clarkana". Additional correspondence also found in speech, article and remarks and documental files.Containers 46-49: SPEECH, ARTICLE AND REMARKS, 1884-1933 Chronologically arranged. Handwritten drafts, typed and printed copies of speeches and articles. Some correspondence, press clippings and seven binders of compiled material from the original "Clarkana" series.Containers 50-150: DOCUMENTAL FILE, 1888-1938 Chiefly legal and diplomatic opinions, memorabilia, reports, addresses, notes, outlines, briefs, drafts and publications. Also some correspondence and newspaper clippings. Chronologically arranged by subject or endeavor. Folder titles and code numbers were devised by J.R.C. staff under the original series title of "Clarkana".- SECTION II -CHURCH SERVICE PERIOD:Containers 151-170: L.D.S. CONFERENCE FILE, 1930-1961 Handwritten, typed or printed drafts, texts, outlines, press clippings of conference addresses plus some correspondence. Also contains conference agendas, statistics, reports, printed programs, prayer lists, and radio and TV coverage. Chronologically arranged. Register shows titles of J.R.C. addresses enclosed in quotations. Those not in quotes are subjects assigned arbitrarily by the archivist for want of a title. A compilation of all of J.R.C. conference addresses are also bound in three binders, 1933-1959, with index, see Container #151.Containers 171-195: RELIGIOUS WRITINGS - MANUSCRIPT FILE, 1925-1960 Working copies, drafts, printers proofs, and resource material, used in preparation for published volumes and unpublished manuscript studies. Also correspondence, press clippings, published reviews, mailing lists, miscellaneous documents and charts.Containers 196-198: CHURCH WELFARE PLAN FILE, 1933-1960 Annual Reports of LDS Church Welfare Plan, 24 volumes; other financial and statistical reports; and memorabilia pertaining to beginnings of plan in four binders. Also articles, reports and address on the subject by J.R.C.Containers 199-264: SPEECH, ARTICLE AND REMARKS, 1933-1961 Handwritten, typed, and printed copies and drafts of speeches and addresses. Chronologically and alphabetically arranged by topic. Also resource material, correspondence press clippings, tape recordings, motion picture sound film, and printed pamphlets. Excludes LDS Conference addresses. Tape recordings are of Tabernacle Choir World Concert Trip, other special presentations, but mostly addresses by J.R.C.Containers 265-310: SUBJECT FILE - ALPHABETICAL Memoranda, data, reports, articles, publications, and news clippings collected by subject as resource material for speeches and articles. Alphabetically arranged.Containers 311-327: NEWSPAPER CLIPPING FILE - SUBJECT AND CHRONOLOGICAL, 1936-1948 Resource material extracted mostly from New York City Dailies. Arranged by subject chronologically.- SECTION III -PERSONAL CORRESPONDENCE - ALL PERIOD, 1890-1961Containers 328-411: Letters received and sent. Chronologically by subject or name of correspondent, many of whom are nationally prominent. Many letters are individually described as to their content in an index originally compiled by J.R.C. staff. This index is located in Box 486 but was not adaptable for use in this register. Some correspondence can also be found in the succeeding sections of the collection.- SECTION IV -OTHER ENDEAVORS - BUSINESS COUNSEL AND FARMING-ALL PERIODS, 1913-1960Containers 412-452: Correspondence, minutes of meetings, reports, memoranda, publication, financial records while serving as a director in various business organizations and in directing his farming operations at Grantsville, Utah.- SECTION V -MEMENTOES - ALL PERIODS:Containers 453-471: PHOTOGRAPHS, 1873-1961 Framed and oversized photographs of self and friends, historical LDS and Utah photos, oversize paintings and water colors, scenic photo albums, and chronological photo files of J.R.C. and his activities and family.Between Containers 471 &​ 472: SCRAPBOOKS, 1891-1961 Newspaper clippings of J.R.C. career activities plus other LDS Church leaders, and family. Also includes scrapbooks of clippings compiled by parents and wife. Chronologically arranged.Containers 471-479: BIOGRAPHIES, HISTORIES AND FAMILY PAPERS, 1873-1961 Biographical material pertaining to J.R.C. in chronological order. Also biographies, correspondence, writings and mementoes of parents and family members, patriarchal blessings, office and home mementoes, engravings and printed nameplate stamps. Some correspondence.Containers 480-485: MEMORIALS, 1875-1960 Chronological listing of certificates certifying government appointments, other certificates, honors trophies, and book of remembrances; eulogies at death of J.R.C. including KSL TV film; and tape recordings of interviews and addresses made at Nauvoo, Illinois.- SECTION VI -INDEXES - ALL PERIODS, 1873-1960Containers 486-492: Includes original "Clarkana" and Correspondence Indexes, (these were not adaptable for use in this register) personal library and international law indexes, other miscellaneous indexes, appointment books, various lists and notes.- SECTION VII -Containers 493-496: ADDITIONAL CLARKANA MATERIAL RETURNED TO ARCHIVES FROM BYU LIBRARY MEMORIAL ROOM DISPLAY AFTER COLLECTION HAD BEEN ARRANGED.MATERIAL NOT PROCESSED - STORED IN LOCKED FILING CABINET OF B.Y.U. ARCHIVESIncludes diaries of Joshua Reuben Clark, Sr., and diaries, financial records, miscellaneous papers and mementoes of Joshua Reuben Clark, Jr.
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