Dick Clark (senator)

Clarence Richard "Dick" Clark ( born 14 September 1928 in Paris, Linn county, Iowa ) is a former American politician (Democratic Party). He represented the state of Iowa from 1973 to 1979 in the U.S. Senate.

After schooling was Dick Clark from 1950 to 1952 in the U.S. Army and was employed in Germany. During this time he studied at a branch of the University of Maryland College in Wiesbaden and at the University of Frankfurt. After returning to the United States he made then in 1953 his Bachelor 's degree from Upper Iowa University and graduated in 1956 as Master of the University of Iowa. From 1959 to 1964, Clark was then self- employed as a lecturer in history and political science at the Upper Iowa University before he went into politics and from 1965 worked as an assistant for Congressman John Culver to 1972. Later, both were together on the Senate.

Clark joined 1972 election to the Board, and sat down with 55 percent of the vote against the Republican incumbent by Jack Miller. He retired on January 3, 1973 in the Congress and was a member of the Foreign Affairs Committee of the Senate, the Subcommittee on Africa, he headed. In 1976, he was the author of the Clark Amendment, a legislation prohibiting government aid for military or para- military involvement in Angola. The law was repealed in 1985 by the Congress.

In 1978, Clark was running for re-election, but was defeated by Republican Roger Jepsen. After him, U.S. President Jimmy Carter appointed to the U.S. Coordinator for Refugees; From 1980, he was then a Fellow of the Institute for Humanistic Studies in Aspen.