Wesley Clark
Politician
1944 –
Who is Wesley Clark?
Wesley Kanne Clark, Sr. is a retired General of the United States Army. He graduated as valedictorian of the class of 1966 at West Point and was awarded a Rhodes Scholarship to the University of Oxford, where he obtained a degree in Philosophy, Politics and Economics. He later graduated from the Command and General Staff College with a master's degree in military science. He spent 34 years in the Army and the Department of Defense, receiving many military decorations, several honorary knighthoods, and a Presidential Medal of Freedom.
Clark commanded Operation Allied Force in the Kosovo War during his term as the Supreme Allied Commander Europe of NATO from 1997 to 2000.
Clark joined the 2004 race for the Democratic Party presidential nomination as a candidate on September 17, 2003, but withdrew from the primary race on February 11, 2004, after winning the Oklahoma state primary, endorsing and campaigning for the eventual Democratic nominee, John Kerry. Clark leads a political action committee, "WesPAC", which he formed after the 2004 primaries and used to support Democratic Party candidates in the 2006 midterm elections. Clark was considered a potential candidate for the Democratic nomination in 2008, but, on September 15, 2007, endorsed Senator Hillary Clinton. After Clinton dropped out of the presidential race, Clark endorsed the then-presumptive Democratic nominee, Barack Obama. Clark serves as the co-chairman of Growth Energy, an ethanol lobbying group, and is on the board of directors of BNK Petroleum. Since July 2012, he also acts as an honorary special advisor to Romanian prime minister Victor Ponta on economic and security matters.
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- Born
- Dec 23, 1944
Chicago - Also known as
- Wesley K. Clark
- Wesley Kanne
- Wesley Kanne Clark, Sr.
- Gen Wesley Clark
- Gen. Wesley Clark
- General Wesley Clark
- Wes Clark
- Parents
- Spouses
- Gertrude Kingston
(1967/06/24 - )
- Gertrude Kingston
- Children
- Religion
- Catholicism
- Southern Baptist Convention
- Nationality
- United States of America
- Profession
- Education
- Magdalen College, Oxford
- United States Military Academy
- Hall High School
- University of Oxford
- National War College
- Command and General Staff College
- Lived in
- Arkansas
Submitted
on July 23, 2013
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