Attorney General: William R. Clark
William Ramsey Clark, the son of Tom C. Clark, the 59th Attorney General, was born in Dallas, Texas, on December 18, 1927. He served in the U.S. Marine Corps from 1945–1946, then earned a bachelor’s degree from the University of Texas in 1949, a master’s degree, and a Juris Doctor (J.D.) degree from the University of Chicago in 1950. He was admitted to the Texas bar in 1951 and went on to practice before the U.S. Supreme Court in 1956. From 1951 to 1961, Clark was an associate and partner in the law firm of Clark, Reed & Clark. He served in the Department of Justice as Assistant Attorney General of the Lands Division from 1961 to 1965, and as Deputy Attorney General from 1965 to 1967. Clark was director of the American Judicature Society in 1963. From 1964 to 1965, he was national president of the Federal Bar Association.
On March 2, 1967, President Lyndon B. Johnson appointed Clark as Attorney General of the United States. He served in the capacity until January 20, 1969. William Clark died in New York City on April 9, 2021.
Robert Berks was born in Boston, Massachusetts, in 1922. He studied at the Boston Museum of Fine Art and was also a pupil of Hyman Bloom. Primarily a sculptor, Berks modeled busts of many prominent Americans, including President Lyndon B. Johnson, General William C. Westmoreland, and Martin Luther King, Jr. His bust of President John F. Kennedy stands in the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington, D.C., while his bust of Robert F. Kennedy is in the Department of Justice's headquarters building. Berk's portrait of Attorney General Clark was painted in 1973. He died in 2011.