{{Short description|American judge}} {{Infobox officeholder | honorific_prefix = | name = Charles Edward Clark | honorific_suffix = | image = Charles E. Clark, Yale.jpg | alt = | caption = | office = Chief Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit | term_start = 1954 | term_end = 1959 | predecessor = Harrie B. Chase | successor = J. Edward Lumbard | office1 = Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit | term_start1 = March 9, 1939 | term_end1 = December 13, 1963 | nominator1 = | appointer1 = Franklin D. Roosevelt | predecessor1 = ''Seat established by 52 Stat. 584'' | successor1 = Robert P. Anderson | office2 = 5th Dean of Yale Law School | term_start2 = 1929 | term_end2 = 1939 | predecessor2 = Robert Maynard Hutchins | successor2 = Ashbel Green Gulliver | pronunciation = | birth_date = {{Birth date|1889|12|09}} | birth_place = Woodbridge, Connecticut, U.S. | death_date = {{Death date and age|1963|12|13|1889|12|09}} | death_place = Hamden, Connecticut, U.S. | death_cause = | resting_place = | resting_place_coordinates = | citizenship = | party = Republican | other_party = | height = | spouse = | partner = | relations = | children = | parents = | mother = | father = | relatives = | education = Yale University (BA, LLB) | alma_mater = | occupation = | profession = | known_for = | salary = | net_worth = | cabinet = | committees = | portfolio = | awards = | signature = | signature_alt = | website = <!--Embedded templates / Footnotes--> | footnotes = }} '''Charles Edward Clark''' (December 9, 1889 – December 13, 1963) was the 5th Dean of Yale Law School, a United States circuit judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, and "the principal draftsman" of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure.<ref>''Gulfstream Aerospace v. Mayacamas'', 485 U.S. 271, 283 (1988).</ref>
==Education and career==
Born on December 9, 1889, in Woodbridge, Connecticut,<ref name="auto">{{FJC Bio|439|nid=1379151|name=Charles Edward Clark<!--(1889–1963)-->}}</ref> to Samuel Orman Clark and Pauline C. Marquand,<ref>{{cite journal |title=Guide to the Charles Edward Clark Papers |number=MS 1344 |publisher=Yale University Library |hdl = 10079/fa/mssa.ms.1344}}</ref> Clark received a Bachelor of Arts degree in 1911 from Yale University.<ref name="auto"/> He received a Bachelor of Laws in 1913 from Yale Law School.<ref name="auto"/> He entered private practice in New Haven, Connecticut from 1913 to 1919.<ref name="auto"/> He was a member of the Connecticut House of Representatives from 1917 to 1918, and was Republican.<ref>[http://www.cslib.org/conngares.asp Members of the Connecticut General Assembly] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071007105422/http://www.cslib.org/conngares.asp |date=2007-10-07 }}</ref> He was a professor of law at Yale Law School from 1919 to 1929.<ref name="auto"/> He was a Deputy Judge of the Hamden, Connecticut Town Court from 1927 to 1931.<ref name="auto"/> He was the Sterling Professor of Law and Dean of Yale Law School from 1929 to 1939.<ref name="auto"/>
The Supreme Court of the United States appointed him as the Reporter to the Advisory Committee on Rules for Civil Procedure in 1935, and the rules that were proposed by that Committee became the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure in 1938.<ref>''Charles E. Clark'', 73 Yale Law Journal 3 (Jan. 1964).</ref>
He was Special Assistant Attorney General for the Antitrust Division of the United States Department of Justice in 1938.<ref name="auto"/>
==Federal judicial service==
Clark was nominated by President Franklin D. Roosevelt on January 5, 1939, to the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, to a new seat authorized by 52 Stat. 584.<ref name="auto"/> He was confirmed by the United States Senate on March 7, 1939, and received his commission on March 9, 1939.<ref name="auto"/> He served as Chief Judge and as a member of the Judicial Conference of the United States from 1954 to 1959.<ref name="auto"/> His service terminated on December 13, 1963, due to his death in Hamden.<ref name="auto"/>
Charles Alan Wright, who went on to coauthor the 54-volume treatise ''Federal Practice and Procedure'', served as a law clerk to Judge Clark.<ref name=CAWright07092000NYT>{{cite news| title=Charles A. Wright, 72, Legal Consultant to Nixon, Dies| last=Cushman Jr.| first=John H.| date=July 9, 2000| page=31| url=https://www.nytimes.com/2000/07/09/us/charles-a-wright-72-legal-consultant-to-nixon-dies.html| newspaper=The New York Times| accessdate=January 29, 2020}}</ref>
===Other service===
Clark was a visiting lecturer in law at Yale University from 1951 to 1963.<ref name="auto"/>
==References== {{Reflist}}
==External links== * [https://archiveswest.orbiscascade.org/ark:80444/xv388479?q=01134 Charles E. Clark papers] are archived at the American Heritage Center, University of Wyoming. * {{FJC Bio|439|nid=1379151|name=Charles Edward Clark<!--(1889–1963)-->}}
==Further reading== * {{cite book |title=Judge Charles Edward Clark |editor-last=Petruck |editor-first=Peninah R. Y. |series=Ingram Documents in Legal History |publisher=Oceana Publications |year=1991 |isbn=0379200716}}
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