S. Wesley Clark was a politician in the State of South Dakota

South Dakota

South Dakota is a state located in the Midwestern region of the United States. It is named after the Lakota and Dakota Sioux American Indian tribes. Once a part of Dakota Territory, South Dakota became a state on November 2, 1889. The state has an area of and an estimated population of just over...

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Biography

Clark was born Samuel Wesley Clark to Samuel Pliny and Elizabeth Dennison Clark on December 28, 1872 in Platteville, Wisconsin

Platteville, Wisconsin

Platteville is the largest city in Grant County in southwestern Wisconsin. The population was 11,224 at the 2010 census, growing 12% since the 2000 Census. Much of this growth is likely due to the enrollment increase of the University of Wisconsin–Platteville...

. In 1900, he would marry Daisy Labrie, who passed away in 1915. Later he would marry Essie Eggler in 1919. He was a Congregationalist.

Career

Clark was the State's Attorney of Spink County, South Dakota

Spink County, South Dakota

As of the census of 2000, there were 7,454 people, 2,847 households, and 1,933 families residing in the county. The population density was 5 people per square mile . There were 3,352 housing units at an average density of 2 per square mile...

from 1900 to 1904. He would serve as Attorney General of South Dakota from 1907 to 1911 before being appointed U.S. Attorney of South Dakota, serving from 1921 to 1926.