Clark Vandersall Poling (August 7, 1910 – February 3, 1943) was a minister in the Reformed Church in America and a lieutenant in the United States Army.

He then took up a position as pastor of the First Reformed Church in Schenectady, New York, where he settled with his wife Elizabeth Jung and their son Clark, Jr. ("Corky").

In late 1942, Poling was transferred to Camp Myles Standish in Taunton, Massachusetts, and attended Chaplains School at Harvard University.

On February 2, 1943, the German submarine U-223 spotted the convoy on the move and closed with the ships, firing a torpedo which struck the Dorchester shortly after midnight.

The Four Chaplains' Medal was established by act of Congress on July 14, 1960, and was presented posthumously to their next of kin by Secretary of the Army Wilber M. Brucker at Ft. Myer, Virginia on January 18, 1961.

[3] Clark V. Poling is honored with a Lesser Feast[4] along with the rest of the Four Chaplains (Alexander D. Goode, John P. Washington and George L. Fox) on the liturgical calendar of the Episcopal Church in the United States of America on February 3.