Walter Ernest Clark (June 9, 1873 - May 1, 1955) was president of the University of Nevada 1918–1938.
From 1893 to 1897 he was a sergeant in the signal corps of Company K, Fourth Ohio National Guard.
[1] In 1903 Clark was awarded a Doctor of Philosophy degree from Columbia University.
[2] In 1908 he married Euphemia Murray Abrams, of Hartford, Connecticut and together they had a son, Walter Van Tilburg Clark on August 3, 1909, in East Orland, Maine.
Additionally donations of land by Clarence Mackay increased campus acreage by nearly fifty percent.