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![handle is hein.barjournals/conebaj0038 and id is 1 raw text is: 1964]
THIS ISSUE OF
THE CONNECTICUT BAR JOURNAL
IS DEDICATED TO THE MEMORY OF
HONORABLE CHARLES E. CLARK
1889-1963
The death of Charles E. Clark on December 13, 1963, brought to an
end one of the most distinguished legal careers in Connecticut's history.
The Connecticut Bar Association shares in the deep loss which the legal
profession has sustained.
Judge Clark has exerted a profound influence on the law of this state
as teacher, dean, judge, and citizen. It is noteworthy that five out of the
last six presidents of this Association studied under him in law school; to
them the memory of Clark on Code Pleading is still vivid after thirty years.
Other members of this Association will remember him as a participant in
Bar activities, as a speaker at countless meetings, as a learned scholar,
and as a distinguished judge of a distinguished court.
Judge Clark came from an old Connecticut family. He was born in
Woodbridge in 1889, He graduated from Yale College in 1911 and from
Yale Law School two years later. For six years he practiced in New Haven
and then returned to the Yale Law School as a member of the faculty. He
became dean in 1929 and served until 1939, when he was appointed by
President Roosevelt to the United States Court of Appeals for the Second
Circuit.
During his practice in Connecticut and his twenty years of service at
the Yale Law School, Judge Clark was active in the civic life of his state.
He served as a representative in the Connecticut General Assembly in the
War session of 1917. Many lawyers have forgotten that his first judicial
experience was not on the federal bench but as judge of the Town Court
of Hamden from 1927 to 1931.
As judge (and from 1954 to 1959 chief judge) of the Court of Appeals,
Judge Clark became nationally known for his scholarly opinions and for
hi unfailing curiosity in the ever-changing problems of the citizen and of
society. The judge was always much concerned with the procedural
aspects of the law and with how to make justice work - more speedily,
more effectively, and with what he felt was the greatest justice for all
litigants, rich or poor. He was one of the moving spirits in the great re-
organization of our federal judicial system occasioned by the adoption of
the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure. He had a chance to try out his legal
theories in a practical way in his authorship of the present judicial code
of the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico. In this state he was one of the
original supporters of the Circuit Court system adopted by the 1959
General Assembl.
At an age when most of our citizens have laid down the burdens of
work, Judge Clark continued at his labors - active to the end. Although
in his seventy-fifth year, he sat as a Court of Appeals judge on the last
day of his life. He was just back from a trip to Puerto Rico to look over
the results of his legal handiwork in that commonwealth, and he was re-
joicing in an invitation to go to the Union of South Africa to observe the
treason trials in that troubled nation.
The Connecticut Bar Association has lost an old friend and a wise
counselor. By this resolution it expresses its appreciation of the long and
distinguished career of Judge Clark and extends to his family its deepest
sympathy.
-RESOLUTION OF COUNCIL OF STATE BAi AssOCIATION](ViewImageLocal?handle=hein.barjournals/conebaj0038&div=1&collection=&method=preview&ext=.png&size=3)