Harold Gravely Clarke (September 28, 1927 – February 26, 2013) was an American jurist and politician.
[1] He attended Mary Persons High School, before enlisting in the United States Army, at age 17, during the final years of World War II.
While in the service, he worked as a journalist, quickly rising to the position of managing editor of Pacific Stars And Stripes.
In addition to practicing law, Clarke continued his earlier work as a journalist when he took on the added duties of editor and publisher of the Monroe Advertiser, a local paper owned by his father.
[2] In 1985, he published a book: Remembering Forward, about growing up in a small Southern town in the 1930s and 1940s.