Grenville Clark (1882-1967)
Lawyer, Author of "World Peace Through World Law" & Nobel Peace Prize Nominee
He was born in New York City and graduated from Harvard College (1903) and Harvard Law School (1906). He was a founding partner of the corporate law firm Root, Clark & Bird in New York City, and a well-known and well respected figure in the inner circles of business, government, and education. During WWI, he led the establishment of the Plattsburg Training Camps. He helped organize military preparedness for both World Wars (notably drafting the Selective Training & Service Act of 1940) and was a confidential consultant to the U.S. Secretary of War, Henry L. Stimson (1940-45). He served as a Fellow of Harvard College, led the American Bar Association to create a Committee on the Bill of Rights to champion the protection of civil liberties and as the Association’s Chairman, wrote several influential amicus curiae briefs in significant cases.
Clark is best known for his involvement later in life with the World Federalist Movement to establish a world governing body with power over member nations. From World War II until his death, his principal effort was to achieve world peace through enforceable world law, the subject of his major work, "World Peace Through World Law", co-authored with Louis B. Sohn. During the height of the Cold War, Clark spoke and wrote in favor of a universal world organization that, in his view, would block otherwise inevitable nuclear conflict. During the civil rights struggle of the 1960s, he also helped to found the NAACP (National Association for the Advancement of Colored People) Legal Defense Fund. He was married twice and by his first wife, Fanny Dwight (1909), he had four children (listed).
Clark is best known for his involvement later in life with the World Federalist Movement to establish a world governing body with power over member nations. From World War II until his death, his principal effort was to achieve world peace through enforceable world law, the subject of his major work, "World Peace Through World Law", co-authored with Louis B. Sohn. During the height of the Cold War, Clark spoke and wrote in favor of a universal world organization that, in his view, would block otherwise inevitable nuclear conflict. During the civil rights struggle of the 1960s, he also helped to found the NAACP (National Association for the Advancement of Colored People) Legal Defense Fund. He was married twice and by his first wife, Fanny Dwight (1909), he had four children (listed).
