Grenville Clark was the writer of the book World Peace Through World Law

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World Peace Through World Law, first published in 1958, was a book by Louis B. Sohn and Grenville Clark proposing a Revised United Nations Charter...

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 lawyer, he was elected to the corporation that governs Harvard University

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 in 1931.

As a member of the Military Training Camps Association, a World War I veterans group, Clark authored the Burke-Wadsworth Bill.

Clark died after proposing limits to national sovereignty.

He was honored by the United States Postal Service

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 with a 39¢ Great Americans series

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 (1980-2000) postage stamp

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