J. Reuben Clark, Jr.
(Sept. 1, 1871--Oct. 6, 1961)
Biographical Publications
Sept. 2004

Books
David H. Yarn, Jr., Young Reuben: The Early Life of J. Reuben Clark, Jr. (Provo, Utah: Brigham Young University Press, [1973]) [Covers 1871-1906, ages 0-35].

Frank W. Fox, J. Reuben Clark: The Public Years (Provo, Utah: BYU Press & Deseret Book, 1980) [Covers 1906-1933, ages 35-62; includes an extensive “Bibliographic Essay” on pages 668-689.]

D. Michael Quinn, J. Reuben Clark: The Church Years (Provo, Utah: BYU Press, 1983) [Covers 1933-1961, ages 62-90].

Gene A. Sessions, Prophesying Upon the Bones: J. Reuben Clark and the Foreign Debt Crisis, 1933-39 (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1992) [Revision of Florida State History Ph.D. dissertation, Prophesying Upon the Bones: J. Reuben Clark, The Foreign Bondholders, and the Great Depression (Ann Arbor, MI: University Microfilms, 1974)].

D. Michael Quinn, Elder Statesman: A Biography of J. Reuben Clark (Salt Lake City: Signature Books, 2002) [Revision of J. Reuben Clark: The Church Years (1983)].

 

Articles/Book Chapters/Short Biographical Sketches
George Parkinson, “How a Utah Boy Won His Way,” Improvement Era 17 (1914): 556-564.

Bryant S. Hinckley, “President J. Reuben Clark, Jr.,” Improvement Era 36 (1933): 643-646.

“J(oshua) Reuben Clark, Jr.,” in The National Cyclopædia of American Biography (New York: James T. White, 1934), vol. D, pp. 290-291.

“Hon. J. Reuben Clark, Jr.” in National Conference of Jews and Christians, Summer 1938, p. 4.

J. Reuben Clark, Jr., “Why I Am An American,” Congressional Record, June 11, 1940.

J. Reuben Clark, Jr., “What I Read as a Boy,” Children’s Friend 42 (1943): 99.

Henry D. Moyle, “President J. Reuben Clark, Jr. Called Back as a Counselor in the First Presidency of the Church,” Relief Society Magazine, June 1951, p. [374].

John A. Widstoe, “President J. Reuben Clark, Jr.: A Defender of the Gospel,” Improvement Era, Aug. 1951, pp. 560-___; reprinted in “President J. Reuben Clark, Jr.”, in Doyle L. Green, compiler, Our Leaders (Salt Lake City: Deseret Book, 1951), pp. 57-70.

Marianne Clark Sharp, “Born to Greatness: The Story of President J. Reuben Clark, Jr.,” Children’s Friend 53 (1954): 360-362.

Melvin R. Brooks, “Joshua Reuben Clark, Jr.,” in L. D. S. Reference Encyclopedia (Salt Lake City: Bookcraft, 1960), vol. 1, p. 75.

Harold B. Lee, “President J. Reuben Clark, Jr.: An Appreciation on his Ninetieth Birthday,” Improvement Era (Sept. 1961): pp. ___.

“J. Reuben Clark, Jr. Dies at 90; Mormon Leader was Ex-Envoy,” New York Times, Oct. 7, 1961, p. 23.

David O. McKay, Harold B. Lee, Joseph Fielding Smith, Henry D. Moyle, and Marion G. Romney, “J. Reuben Clark, Jr., Funeral Address,” Deseret News, Church News Section, Oct. 14, 1961.

“J. Reuben Clark, Jr.,” [Obituary], Newsweek, vol. 58, p. 76 (Oct. 16, 1961).

Hugh B. Brown, “In Memoriam—President J. Reuben Clark, Jr.,” Relief Society Magazine, Dec. 1961, p. [789].

Harold B. Lee, “Foreword,” in J. Reuben Clark, Jr., Behold the Lamb of God (Salt Lake City: Deseret Book, 1962), pp. vii-ix.

Robert H. Ferrell, “Repudiation of a Repudiation,” Journal of American History 51 (1965): 669-673 [topic is the Clark Memorandum].

“J(oshua) Reuben Clark, Jr.,” in Who Was Who in America (Chicago: Marquis-Who’s Who, 1968), Vol. 4, 1961-1968, p. 177.

[NOTE: A “J. Reuben Clark, Jr. Symposium” was held on Nov. 21, 1972, sponsored by Brigham Young University’s Department of Political Science and the Student Office of Academics. The talks were printed in the Spring 1973 issue of BYU Studies, and then reprinted as a separate book, Ray C. Hillam, Charles D. Tate, Jr., and Laura Wadley, editors, J. Reuben Clark, Jr.: Diplomat and Statesman (Provo, Utah: Brigham Young University Press, 1973). Later, some of these articles were reprinted in various compilations, including Ray C. Hillam, editor, J. Reuben Clark and International Relations (Provo, Utah: Center for International and Area Studies, Brigham Young University, 1983).]

David H. Yarn, Jr., “Biographical Sketch of President Clark,” BYU Studies 13 (Spring 1973): 235-244; reprinted in Ray C. Hillam, Charles D. Tate, Jr., and Laura Wadley, editors, J. Reuben Clark, Jr.: Diplomat and Statesman (Provo, Utah: Brigham Young University Press, 1973), pp. 5-14; reprinted in Ray C. Hillam, editor, J. Reuben Clark and International Relations (Provo, Utah: Center for International and Area Studies, Brigham Young University, 1983), pp. 1-12.

Marion G. Romney, “The Political Thought of President Clark,” BYU Studies 13 (Spring 1973): 245-254 [BYU Devotional Assembly speech, Nov. 21, 1972]; reprinted in Ray C. Hillam, Charles D. Tate, Jr., and Laura Wadley, editors, J. Reuben Clark, Jr.: Diplomat and Statesman (Provo, Utah: Brigham Young University Press, 1973), pp. 15-24; reprinted in Marion G. Romney, “Political Thought and Life of J. Reuben Clark, Jr.,” BYU Speeches of the Year, 1972-73 (Provo: BYU Press, 1973), pp. 55-64.

Martin B. Hickman, “J. Reuben Clark, Jr.: The Constitution and The Great Fundamentals,” BYU Studies 13 (Spring 1973): 255-272; reprinted in Ray C. Hillam, Charles D. Tate, Jr., and Laura Wadley, editors, J. Reuben Clark, Jr.: Diplomat and Statesman (Provo, Utah: Brigham Young University Press, 1973), pp. 25-42; reprinted in Ray C. Hillam, editor, “By The Hands of Wise Men”: Essays on the U. S. Constitution (Provo, Utah: Brigham Young University Press, 1979), pp. 39-57.

Edwin Brown Firmage and Christopher L. Blakesley, “J. Reuben Clark, Jr.: Law and International Order,” BYU Studies 13 (Spring 1973): 273-346; reprinted in Ray C. Hillam, Charles D. Tate, Jr., and Laura Wadley, editors, J. Reuben Clark, Jr.: Diplomat and Statesman (Provo, Utah: Brigham Young University Press, 1973), pp. 43-116.

James B. Allen, “J. Reuben Clark, Jr., on American Sovereignty and International Organization,” BYU Studies 13 (Spring 1973): 347-372; reprinted in Ray C. Hillam, Charles D. Tate, Jr., and Laura Wadley, editors, J. Reuben Clark, Jr.: Diplomat and Statesman (Provo, Utah: Brigham Young University Press, 1973), pp. 117-142; reprinted in Ray C. Hillam, editor, J. Reuben Clark and International Relations (Provo, Utah: Center for International and Area Studies, Brigham Young University, 1983), pp. 49-75.

Ray C. Hillam, Martin B. Hickman, James B. Allen, Neal A. Maxwell, and Robert S. Jordan, “Panel Discussion on J. Reuben Clark, Jr., November 21, 1972,” BYU Studies 13 (Spring 1973): 373-395; reprinted in Ray C. Hillam, Charles D. Tate, Jr., and Laura Wadley, editors, J. Reuben Clark, Jr.: Diplomat and Statesman (Provo, Utah: Brigham Young University Press, 1973), pp. 143-165.

Lee H. Burke, “J. Reuben Clark, Jr.: Under Secretary of State,” BYU Studies 13 (Spring 1973): 396-404; reprinted in Ray C. Hillam, Charles D. Tate, Jr., and Laura Wadley, editors, J. Reuben Clark, Jr.: Diplomat and Statesman (Provo, Utah: Brigham Young University Press, 1973), pp. 166-174; reprinted in Ray C. Hillam, editor, J. Reuben Clark and International Relations (Provo, Utah: Center for International and Area Studies, Brigham Young University, 1983), pp. 29-38.

Martin B. Hickman, “The Ambassadorial Years: Some Insights,” BYU Studies 13 (Spring 1973): 405-414; reprinted in Ray C. Hillam, Charles D. Tate, Jr., and Laura Wadley, editors, J. Reuben Clark, Jr.: Diplomat and Statesman (Provo, Utah: Brigham Young University Press, 1973), pp. 175-184; reprinted in Ray C. Hillam, editor, J. Reuben Clark and International Relations (Provo, Utah: Center for International and Area Studies, Brigham Young University, 1983), pp. 39-48.

Stan A. Taylor, “J. Reuben Clark, Jr., and the United Nations,” BYU Studies 13 (Spring 1973): 415-425; reprinted in Ray C. Hillam, Charles D. Tate, Jr., and Laura Wadley, editors, J. Reuben Clark, Jr.: Diplomat and Statesman (Provo, Utah: Brigham Young University Press, 1973), pp. 185-195; reprinted in Ray C. Hillam, editor, J. Reuben Clark and International Relations (Provo, Utah: Center for International and Area Studies, Brigham Young University, 1983), pp. 77-88.

Martin B. Hickman and Ray C. Hillam, “J. Reuben Clark, Jr.: Political Isolationism Revisited,” Dialogue, 7 (Spring 1972): 37-46; reprinted in BYU Studies 13 (Spring 1973): 426-440; reprinted in Ray C. Hillam, Charles D. Tate, Jr., and Laura Wadley, editors, J. Reuben Clark, Jr.: Diplomat and Statesman (Provo, Utah: Brigham Young University Press, 1973), pp. 196-210; reprinted in Ray C. Hillam, editor, J. Reuben Clark and International Relations (Provo, Utah: Center for International and Area Studies, Brigham Young University, 1983), pp. 13-27.

Robert S. Wood and Stan A. Taylor, “J. Reuben Clark, Jr., and the American Approach to Foreign Policy,” BYU Studies 13 (Spring 1973): 441-452; reprinted in Ray C. Hillam, Charles D. Tate, Jr., and Laura Wadley, editors, J. Reuben Clark, Jr.: Diplomat and Statesman (Provo, Utah: Brigham Young University Press, 1973), pp. 211-222.

James B. Allen, “Personal Faith and Public Policy: Some Timely Observations on the League of Nations Controversy in Utah,” BYU Studies 14 (1973): 77-98.

Joseph Anderson, “President J. Reuben Clark, Jr.,” in Prophets I Have Known (Salt Lake City: Deseret Book, 1973), pp. 79-94.

Ray C. Hillam, Charles D. Tate, Jr., and Laura Wadley, editors, J. Reuben Clark, Jr.: Diplomat and Statesman (Provo, Utah: Brigham Young University Press, 1973) [reprinted as a monograph of BYU Studies, vol. 13 (Spring 1973); see individual articles listed].

Lawrence R. Flake, “Joshua Reuben Clark, Jr.,” in Mighty Men of Zion: General Authorities of the Last Dispensation (Salt Lake City: Karl D. Butler, 1974), pp. 103-104.

David H. Yarn, Jr., A Glimpse of J. Reuben Clark, Jr. ([Provo, Utah: BYU, 1975]) [BYU Forum Assembly address, August 5, 1975; 14 p. pamphlet “Specially printed for the dedication of the J. Reuben Clark Law Building, Brigham Young University, Sept. 5, 1975.”]

“J. Reuben Clark, Jr. Biographical Sketch,” in Dedication: To Justice, To Excellence, To Responsibility: Proceedings at the Convocation and Dedication of the J. Reuben Clark College of Law, Brigham Young University, Provo, Utah, September 5, 1975 (Provo, Utah: Brigham Young University, 1975), pp. 61-63.

“J. Reuben Clark, Jr.,” Clark Memorandum, Vol. 1, no. 1, pp. 6-8 (1975).

David H. Yarn, Jr., “J. Reuben Clark, Jr.: On Our American Heritage,” Sperry Lecture Series, 1976, pp. 37-49 [lecture given March 11, 1976, BYU].

Gene A. Sessions, “The Clark Memorandum Myth,” The Americas 34 (1977): 40-58.

Richard S. Van Wagoner and Steven C. Walker, “J. Reuben Clark,” in A Book of Mormons (Salt Lake City: Signature Books, 1982), pp. 62-71.

Ray C. Hillam, editor, J. Reuben Clark and International Relations, Preliminary ed. (Provo, Utah: Brigham Young University, Center for International Relations, 1983) [A collection of essays, reprinted from J. Reuben Clark, Jr.: Diplomat and Statesman (1973) and J. Reuben Clark: The Public Years (1980)].

David H. Yarn, Jr., “Introduction,” in J. Reuben Clark: Selected Papers on Religion, Education, and Youth (Provo, Utah: Brigham Young University Press, 1984), pp. 1-15.

David H. Yarn, Jr., J. Reuben Clark, Jr.: A Role Model ([Provo, Utah]: J. Reuben Clark Law School, Brigham Young University, 1985) [8 page pamphlet].

David H. Yarn, Jr., “Introduction,” in J. Reuben Clark: Selected Papers on International Affairs (Provo, Utah: Brigham Young University Press, 1987), pp. 1-6.

David H. Yarn, Jr., “Introduction,” in J. Reuben Clark: Selected Papers on Americanism and National Affairs (Provo, Utah: Brigham Young University Press, 1987), pp. 1-6.

John E. Findling, “Joshua Reuben Clark, Jr. (1871-1961),” in Dictionary of American Diplomatic History, 2nd ed. (New York: Greenwood Press, 1989), pp. 117-118.

Stephen A. Flanders and Carl N. Flanders, “Clark Memorandum (1930),” in Dictionary of American Foreign Affairs (New York: MacMillan, 1993), pp. 111-112.

Davis Bitton, “Joshua Reuben Clark (1871-1961),” in Historical Dictionary of Mormonism (Metuchen, N. J.: Scarecrow Press, 1994), pp. 55-57.

David C. Gessel, “Joshua Reuben Clark, Jr.,” in Alan Kent Powell, editor, Utah History Encyclopedia (Salt Lake City: University of Utah Press, 1994), p. 98.

Gaddis Smith, “Clark Memorandum,” in Bruce W. Jentleson and Thomas G. Paterson, editors, Encyclopedia of U. S. Foreign Relations (New York: Oxford University Press, 1997), vol. 1, p. 262.

J. David Gowdy, “Constitutional Thought of J. Reuben Clark, Jr.,” Clark Memorandum, Spring 1999, pp. 10-15 [Address given at the Dallas/Fort Worth Chapter of the J. Reuben Clark Law Society, Feb. 16, 1999].

Frank W. Fox, “Joshua Reuben Clark, Jr.,” in John A. Garraty and Mark C. Carnes, editors, American National Biography (New York: Oxford University Press, 1999), vol. 4, pp. 937-938.

Kristin B. Gerdy, “J. Reuben Clark, Jr.,” in Arnold K. Garr, Donald Q. Cannon, and Richard O. Cowan, editors, Encyclopedia of Latter-day Saint History (Salt Lake City: Deseret Book, 2000), pp. 214-215.

Larry E. Morris, editor, “‘We Are in for a Ten Years’ War’: Herbert Hoover to J. Reuben Clark, Jr., 1941,” in A Treasury of Latter-day Saint Letters ([Salt Lake City]: Eagle Gate, 2001), pp. 197-199.

Lawrence R. Flake, “Joshua Reuben Clark Jr.,” in Prophets and Apostles of the Last Dispensation (Provo, Utah: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2001), pp. 203-207 [revision of Mighty Men of Zion (1974)].

Stephen S. Davis, “J. Reuben Clark, Jr.: Counselor to Heber J. Grant, George Albert Smith, David O. McKay (1933-1961),” in Michael K. Winder, compiler, Counselors to the Prophets (Roy, Utah: Eborn Books, 2001): 246-363 [Stephen S. Davis is a great-grandson of J. Reuben Clark, Jr.].

Larry E. Morris, editor, “A Letter to Helen Keller,” in And Now You Know: The Rest of the Story from the Lives of Well-Known Latter-day Saints (Salt Lake City: Eagle Gate, 2002), pp. 63-67.

 

Unpublished Biographies
F. Melvin Hammond, “Some Political Concepts of J. Reuben Clark, Jr.” (unpublished BYU Dept. of Political Science, Masters Thesis, 1962).

“Biographical History,” in Register of the Clarkana Papers of Joshua Reuben Clark, Jr. (Provo, Utah: Manuscript Division, Brigham Young University Library Archives, 1967; also 2003 addendum).

Dan E. Jones, “Utah Politics: 1926-1932,” (unpublished University of Utah Dept. of Political Science, Ph.D. dissertation, 1968).

Daniel J. Carpenter, “Thoughts on Law and Government: J. Reuben Clark, Jr.” (unpublished BYU law student paper, 1976).

David Earl Buchanan, “An Analysis of the Immediate and Long-Range Implications of Three Speeches Delivered by J. Reuben Clark, Jr.” (unpublished BYU Dept. of Communications M.A. Thesis, 1976).

Robert D. Dennis, “Human Rights in American Foreign Policy and the Clark Model,” (unpublished BYU Dept. of Government M.A. Thesis, 1979).

James D. Gordon, “J. Reuben Clark,” (unpublished BYU Law School address, Sept. 22, 1994).

D. Philip Kenny, “J. Reuben Clark, Jr.: American Constitutional Government” (unpublished Honors Project—Brigham Young University, 2003).

Additional biographical information and perspectives are in book reviews.  See Robert H. Ferrell, The Western Historical Quarterly, vol. 13, no. 2, Apr. 1982, pp. 208-209; Mark T. Gilderhus, The Journal of American History, vol. 68, no. 3, Dec. 1981, p. 713; Klaus J. Hansen, Pacific Historical Review, vol. 51, 1982, pp. 437-438; Robert E. Riggs, Brigham Young University Law Review, vol. 1981, pp. 227-245, reprinted in Brigham Young University Studies, winter 1982, vol. 22, no.1, pp. 113-118; Michael C. Robinson, Dialogue, Autumn 1982, vol. 15, no. 3, pp. 126-128; Robert C. Hilderbrand, Journal of the West, vol. 20, Oct. 1981, p. 91; Joseph B. Romney, Arizona and the West, vol. 23, Autumn 1981, pp. 297-298; Justin H. Libby, Utah Historical Quarterly, vol. 49, Summer 1981, pp. 310-312.

Book reviews: Klaus J. Hansen, American Historical Review, vol. 90, Dec. 1985, pp. 1293-1294; Dennis L. Lythgoe, Journal of the West, vol. 23, July 1984, pp. 90-91; Richard W. Sadler, Utah Historical Quarterly, vol. 52, Winter 1984, pp. 94-95; Melvin T. Smith, Western Historical Quarterly, vol. 15, July 1984, p. 350; J. D. Williams, Journal of American History, vol. 71, Dec. 1984, pp. 665-666; J. Keith Melville, Journal of Mormon History, 1985, v.12, pp. 129-133.

Book reviews: James L. Clayton, Utah Historical Quarterly, vol. 61, p. 203, Spring 1993; Edward John Ray, Business History Review, vol. 67, no. 2, pp. 325-326, 1993; Elisabeth Glaser-Schmidt, Journal of Economic History, vol. 51, no. 1, pp. 231-233, 1994; Robert F. Himmelberg, American Historical Review, vol. 99, no. 1, p. 323, 1994; Paul W. Drake, Americas: A Quarterly Review of Inter-American Cultural History, vol. 50, no. 3, pp. 454-455, 1994; Thomas W. Zeiler, Journal of American History, vol. 80, no. 4, p. 1518, 1994.

Book review: Brian Q. Cannon, Utah Historical Quarterly, vol. 71, no. 4, 2002, pp. 372-374; Gregory A. Prince, Journal of Mormon History, vol. 28, no. 2, pp. 174-179, fall 2002; Jeff Needle, Association for Mormon Letters, May 2002, www.aml-online.org.