Joseph Sill Clark Jr. was an American writer, lawyer and politician. A member of the Democratic Party, he served as the 90th Mayor of Philadelphia from 1952 to 1956 and as a United States Senator from Pennsylvania from 1957 to 1969. Clark was the only Unitarian Universalist elected to a major office in Pennsylvania in the modern era.
Joseph S. Clark Jr.
University of Pennsylvania Law School
The University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School is the law school of the University of Pennsylvania, a private Ivy League research university in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Penn Carey Law offers the degrees of Juris Doctor (J.D.), Master of Laws (LL.M.), Master of Comparative Laws (LL.C.M.), Master in Law (M.L.), and Doctor of the Science of Law (S.J.D.).
A 1974 portrait by Allyn Cox on display on the first floor of the U.S. House of Representatives wing of United States Capitol of the four primary framers of United States Constitution meeting in garden of Benjamin Franklin. Left to right: Alexander Hamilton, James Wilson, James Madison, and Benjamin Franklin
George Sharswood, the third professor of law and first dean of the Law Department of the University of Pennsylvania and later Chief Justice of Pennsylvania, in 1861
William Draper Lewis was named dean of Penn Law in 1896 and founded the American Law Institute
University of Pennsylvania students taking United States Navy examination for commission in McKean Hall at Penn Law in June 1918
