Political Career
Clark ran for a seat to the Legislative Assembly of Alberta as a Progressive Conservative candidate in the Drumheller electoral district for the 1979 Alberta general election. He defeated four other candidates in a hotly contested race to pick up the seat for his party.
Clark ran for a second term in the Assembly in the 1982 Alberta general election. He was easily returned to office defeated two other candidates with a landslide majority.
He retired from provincial level politics at dissolution of the assembly in 1986.
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