Mark Clark

Mark Clark (1896-1984), American army officer, born at Madison Barracks, Sackets Harbor, New York. He graduated from the United States Military Academy and was commissioned as a second lieutenant in 1917. He advanced through the ranks to a permanent rank of general in 1945; he retired from the army in 1953. Between 1942 and 1945 he served in World War II as chief of staff of the US Army ground forces, as deputy commander in chief of the Allied forces invading North Africa, and as commander of the US Fifth Army during the invasion of Italy. He was US high commissioner for Austria from 1945 until 1947. Returning to the United States, he commanded the Sixth Army from 1947 until 1949 and was chief of the army field forces from 1949 until 1952. He was supreme commander of the United Nations forces in the Korean War during 1952 and 1953. Clark was president of the Citadel, a military academy in Charleston, South Carolina, from 1954 until 1966. He wrote Calculated Risk (1950) and From the Danube to the Yalu (1954).