GEORGE W. CLARK
Lieutenant-Governor, was born in Selby county, Indiana, October 24,
1852. His parents moved to Davis county, Iowa in 1856, and there he
lived and worked on a farm until manwood. He taught twelve months in
Davis county and graduated from Oskaloosa College in 1877 and from the law
department of the State University in 1878. He was married in 1878
and began the practice of law in Adel, Dallas county, Iowa, and has
continued the practice there ever since. He was a member of the
House of Representatives in the Twenty-eighth, Twenty-ninth, thirtieth,
and Thirty-first General Assemblies and was speaker to the Thirtieth and
Thirty-first General Assemblies. Was elected Lieutenant-Governor in
1908.
A Republican in politics.
From Iowa Official Register 1909-1910, pages 627-638 Biographies of State Officers
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