William Clark

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Clark, William Thomas (1831-1905) Union army officer and politician, born in Norwalk, Connecticut. Clark helped to raise the 13th Iowa Infantry Regiment at Davenport in 1861, and, serving with the Army of the Tennessee, he fought in many major western battles, including Shiloh and Corinth in 1862, and Vicksburg in 1863. He was brevetted major general in 1865.

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The American explorer and soldier William Clark (1770-1838) was second in command of what has been called the American national epic of exploration,the Lewis and Clark expedition of 1804-1806, which traveled from the Missouri River to the Pacific Ocean.

William Clark was born on Aug. 1, 1770, in Caroline County, Va. He joined militia companies fighting local tribes in the Ohio country in 1789 and 3 years later won a lieutenant's commission in the U.S. infantry. He was on the Native American and Spanish frontier of the United States and served in Mad Anthony Wayne's successful campaign, terminated by the victory of Fallen Timbers (1794) over the Native Americans.

Clark resigned his commission in 1796, became a civilian, and tried to straighten out the chaotic financial condition of his famous brother, a hero of the Revolution, George Rogers Clark. However, when Meriwether Lewis offered him a role in what would be known as the Lewis and Clark expedition, he leaped at the opportunity.

In 1801 President Thomas Jefferson had chosen his White House secretary, Capt. Meriwether Lewis, to lead a corps of discovery up the Big Muddy (or Missouri) River and across the Rockies to the Pacific via the Columbia River. He gave Lewis complete freedom to choose his second in command. Without hesitation the Virginian picked his old Army buddy William Clark. When the Army failed to give Clark the promotion he deserved, Lewis ignored the "brass" and addressed Clark as captain, treating him as a virtual co-commander of the expedition.

It was Clark who led the fleet of boats upriver on May 14, 1804, while Lewis was detained in St. Louis by diplomatic and administrative matters. The two officers led their men up the Missouri to the Mandan Indian country of North Dakota, where they wintered before continuing in the spring of 1805. With great difficulty they shifted from canoes to horses and back to canoes as they crossed the unknown Rockies and followed the Columbia River to the sea. Clark was sharing leadership with Lewis in one of the most successful partnerships in the history of the nation.

After wintering at Ft. Clatsop on the Oregon coast, Lewis decided to split the party on its return to Missouri. He sent Clark to explore the Yellowstone River while he reconnoitered the Marias River. Although Lewis never yielded his command to Clark (except when accidentally wounded and incapacitated during a hunting expedition), Clark's wilderness and leadership skills contributed to the success of the corps of discovery. While Lewis was more brilliant and intellectual, Clark got along better with the men and was a fine map maker. Both men kept diaries, although spelling was not one of Clark's strong points.

Safe in St. Louis in September 1806, Clark resigned his commission to become brigadier general of militia and superintendent of Indian affairs for Louisiana Territory (later Missouri Territory) under the new governor, Meriwether Lewis. Clark was governor himself from 1813 to 1821, then became an unwilling - and unsuccessful - candidate for governor of the new state of Missouri. He devoted much of his time during the War of 1812 to Native American affairs and kept Missouri Territory almost unharmed by British-inspired Native American raids. He continued in Indian diplomacy after the conflict and by his good sense was able to avert trouble with the Indians, who came to trust him more than any other white man.

Clark died in St. Louis on Sept. 1, 1838. Highly respected as an administrator, soldier, and explorer, for a half century he had served his country well, particularly in keeping the peace on the Native American frontier.

Further Reading

There is no biography of Clark, although one has long been in preparation. The best sources are those on Meriwether Lewis, including John Bakeless, Lewis and Clark: Partners in Discovery (1947), and Richard Dillon, Meriwether Lewis (1965). An interesting retracing of Lewis and Clark's exploration is Calvin Tomkins, The Lewis and Clark Trail (1965). A one-volume abridgment of The Journals of Lewis and Clark was edited by Bernard DeVoto (1953).

Additional Sources

Ambrose, Stephen E., Undaunted courage: Meriwether Lewis, Thomas Jefferson, and the opening of the American West, New York: Simon & Schuster, 1996.

Bakeless, John Edwin, Lewis and Clark: partners in discovery, Mineola, N.Y.: Dover Publications, 1996.

1910-1975

A psychologist and psychoanalyst who practiced in France, Margaret Clark-Williams was born in the United States in 1910 to a family of prominent academics; she died in 1975.

At 21 she went first to France, then to Vienna, where she made her initial contacts in psychoanalytic circles. After a period in the United States with her two children, she returned to France in 1945 and began psychoanalysis with Raymond de Saussure, clinical training with Georges Heuyer, and university studies with Daniel Lagache; she also practiced analysis under the supervision of John Leuba. She subsequently worked as a psychotherapist at the recently opened Centre Claude Bernard. Nothing had prepared Clark-Williams, a reserved woman of charm and humor, to become the center of a sensational media affair widely reported in the French press. Major articles on the Clark-Williams Trial, as it became known, appeared in Le Figaro, Paris Presse, Combat, Le Monde, and Libération.

In March 1950 the official Order of Physicians brought legal action against Clark-Williams for illicit practice of medicine "due to the fact that she practices psychoanalysis and, therefore, medicine." By French law (l'Ordonnance du 24 septembre 1945), physicians alone had the right to diagnose and treat illness. However, at the Sorbonne in 1947 Daniel Lagache had created a licence (i.e., master's degree) in psychology, and in 1950 the first graduates sought to put their education to practical use in a therapeutic context.

Meanwhile, a Gaullist cabinet member and non-medical psychoanalyst, Georges Mauco, through the intermediary of the Committees of Population and the Family, had created the Centre Claude Bernard, the first psychopedagogical institution in France, in 1945. The Center boasted two distinctive features. It took account of the fact that the role of emotions had theretofore been neglected in favor of cognitive issues, and it brought the psychoanalyst into the consulting room for the initial interviews. In France this represented the first extension of psychoanalysis into social institutions.

Clark-Williams's trial, which began on December 4, 1951, turned quickly to her advantage. Medically trained analysts attested to her competence and, although she was not a physician, they described her as perfectly qualified to practice psychoanalysis. Dr. Leuba went so far as to request that he sit with the defendant since the accused was one of his former students. Arguments quickly centered on the relationship of medicine and psychoanalysis. Clark-Williams's supporters had no difficulty explaining that, inasmuch as medicine did not officially recognize psychoanalysis, it was in no position to accuse psychoanalysts of practicing medicine illegally.

Analysts Georges Parcheminey and André Berge testified that psychoanalysis did not involve treating an illness but resembled an effort to help a person with "abnormal behavior" to adjust. Daniel Lagache and Juliette Favez-Boutonier suggested that "psychoanalysis is not a medicine but a psychological technique." Jacques Lacan, who did not take part in the trial but became involved at meetings where the issue was debated, offered his view that "it is difficult for doctors to do without the best psychologists."

When the court rendered judgment on March 31, 1952, it ruled to dismiss charges against the defendant. The Order of Physicians appealed and on July 15, 1953, a second verdict found Clark-Williams guilty and imposed the purely symbolic fine of one franc. Contrary to the plaintiffs' intentions, the trial served to advance the cause of psychologists and lay psychoanalysis in France.

Bibliography

Berge, André. (1975). Nécrologie de Margaret Clark Williams. Revue française de psychanalyse, 39 (4), 669-670.

Freud, Sigmund. (1926). The question of lay analysis. SE, 20:183-250.

Schopp, Georges. (1990). "L'affaire Clark-Williams ou la question de l'analyse laïque en France." Revue internationale d'histoire de la psychanalyse, 3, 199-239.

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William Clark may refer to:

Contents 1 Politics 2 Sport 3 Academia 4 Other 5 See also

Politics

• William Clark (explorer) (1770–1838), American soldier and explorer; governor of Missouri Territory
• William Clark (congressman) (1774–1851), American politician, US Congressman from Pennsylvania, and Treasurer of the United States
• William Clark, Jr. (1798–1871), American politician and signatory to the Texas Declaration of Independence
• William Clark, Jr. (1828–1884), American politician, and Texas state legislator
• William Clark, Jr. (ambassador) (born 1930), former United States Ambassador to India
• William Clark, Baron Clark of Kempston (1917–2004), British politician
• William Andrews Clark (1839–1925), American politician, copper baron, and United States senator from Montana; father of William Andrews Clark, Jr.
• William George Clark (politician) (1865–1948), Canadian politician
• William Mortimer Clark (1836–1917), Canadian politician
• William P. Clark, Jr. (born 1931), American politician, and United States Secretary of the Interior
• William Ramsey Clark aka, Ramsey Clark (born 1927), America politician, United States Attorney General
• William Thomas Clark (1831–1905), American soldier and Congressman from Texas (1869–1872)
• William Clark (Alberta politician) (1869–1913), a politician in Alberta, Canada

Sport

• William Clark (archer) (?–1913), American Olympic archer
• William Clark (footballer), Scottish football manager
• William Nuschler Clark (born 1964), American professional baseball player
• William Clark (martial artist), American UFC FIGHTER
• William Clark (skier), Canadian skier and Olympic competitor
• Billy Clark, English footballer

Academia

• William Bell Clark (1889–1968), American advertising executive and naval historian
• William George Clark (1821–1878), British scholar of Shakespearean literature
• William Robinson Clark (1829–1912), Canadian theologian
• William J. Clark (born 1945), American author and historian
• William Bullock Clark (1860–1917), American geologist
• William S. Clark (1826–1886), American scholar and Massachusetts educator

Other

• William Clark (explorer) (1770–1838), American explorer of "Lewis and Clark" fame
• William Clark (judge) (1891–1957), American federal judge
• William A. Clark (soldier), American Civil War soldier and Medal of Honor recipient
• William Andrews Clark, Jr. (1877–1934), American violinist, and founder of the Los Angeles Philharmonic; son of William Andrews Clark, Sr.
• William Henry Clark (1854–1925), American Bishop of the Free Methodist Church
• William Clark (inventor) (1821–1880), British civil engineer and inventor
• William Tierney Clark (1783–1852), English engineer and bridge designer
• William Clark (priest) (1568–1603), English Roman Catholic priest and conspirator

See also

• William Clarke (disambiguation)
• Will Clark (disambiguation)
• Willie Clark (disambiguation)

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