James Clark Jr.

His father, James Clark Sr. (1885–1955), was a judge of the Fifth Circuit Court whose family's roots in Howard County, Maryland traced back to 1797.

He took courses which included flight in a Taylorcraft and Stearman Biplane, graduating from Iowa State College in 1941 with a bachelor's degree in animal husbandry.

During World War II, Clark trained at Luke Field in Arizona then volunteered to serve in the Glider Pilot Corps, while his brother Joseph was in the Merchant Marine.

After an accident with a horse drawn drill running over his head in 1947, Clark raised cattle, and started a dairy operation in 1949.

He began a family in 1950 with the arrival of their first son, Mark Tyson who would take over and move milking operations to his Gold Arrow farm in southwest Georgia in 1988.

Clark and Howard County Delegates William Hanna and Edwin Wafield would be the approvers of state money to provide road water and sewer for the Rouse project.

[6] In 1965, Clark requested that Rouse speak on behalf of Governor Tawes fair housing legislation while the New Town zoning was under consideration.

[7][8] In April 1968 Civil Rights Act of 1968 included national legislation of fair housing days after the Baltimore riot of 1968.

The development claimed to be progressive, although Rouse actively managed the racial mix of new purchasers in the early years to achieve his desired result.

[14] Clark was appointed to the newly formed Finance Committee which championed Bill James which created the Maryland Farmland Preservation Foundation.

After the passage of a successful pension funding bill, Clark was appointed to nine member commission to study the issue at a federal level that failed with the loss of Carter's campaign.

As a legislator, Senator Clark was a champion of a wide range of issues, including civil rights, open space and farm land preservation (especially in his native Howard County, Maryland), and pension funding.