|Former Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court| From:
August 19, 1949 – June 12, 1967 |59th Attorney General of the
United States| From: June 27, 1945 – July 26, 1949
|Successor||J. Howard McGrath| Tom C. Clark (1899-1977), served
as the United States Attorney General from 1945 to 1949 and,
after appointed by President Harry S Truman, served as an
Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States from
1949 to 1967. Justice Clark was the only Texan to have ever
served on the U.S. Supreme Court, having graduated from the
University of Texas in 1922. Clark resigned prematurely from the
Court in 1967 when his son Ramsey Clark became Attorney General.
As a retired Justice Clark was authorized to preside in eleven
U.S. Circuits and in federal district court. Justice Clark is
best known for opposing the Communists during the Cold War, as
one of four appointments to the Supreme Court by President
Truman who consistently ruled in favor of anticommunist
policies. Personally, Justice Clark worked the hard