William Clifford Clark, CMG (April 18, 1889 – December 27, 1952) was a Canadian

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, and civil servant. He earned his MA from Queen's University receiving honours in Latin, French, English, History, and Political and Economic Science. He did graduate studies in economics with F. W. Taussig at Harvard. He returned to teach at Queen's in 1915, where he became the first head of the Commerce program in 1919. In 1921, Clark left to work for American investment firm S. W. Straus and Company, returning to Queen's after the company went bankrupt in the Great Depression. At the instigation of

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, Clark wrote a well-received memorandum on monetary policy for the 1932

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in Ottawa. Shortly afterwards, he was appointed Deputy Minister in the Department of Finance by R. B. Bennett, a position he held until his death in 1952. As deputy minister, he helped to establish the Bank of Canada in 1934, chaired the World War II Economic Advisory Committee, and helped convince Mackenzie King to adopt the 1944 Family Allowance Bill. He was appointed a Companion of the Order of St Michael and St George in 1935.

Works

* 1918: (with Eric Walter Zimmerman
Foreign Trade and Shipping
volume 15 in Modern Business series of

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, New York, link from

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. * In ''Bulletin of the Department of History and Political Science'' at Queen's University: ** 1916: The country elevator in the Canadian West ** 1918: Should maximum prices be fixed? ** 1921: Business cycles and the depression of 1920-1.

References

* Robert Wardhaugh, ''Behind the Scenes: the Life and Work of William Clifford Clark'' (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2010) * J.L. Granatstein, ''The Ottawa Men: The Civil Service Mandarins 1935-1957'' (Toronto: Oxford University Press, 1982)
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1889 births 1952 deaths 20th-century Canadian civil servants Canadian economists Queen's University at Kingston alumni Academic staff of Queen's University at Kingston Harvard Graduate School of Arts and Sciences alumni Persons of National Historic Significance (Canada) Canadian Companions of the Order of St Michael and St George Presidents of the Canadian Political Science Association 20th-century political scientists {{Canada-economist-stub