J. Reuben Clark - Career Timeline

Career Timeline

• 1900-1901 President of the Branch Normal School (Southern Utah University)
• 1906-1910 Assistant Solicitor for the United States Department of State
• 1907-1908 Assistant Professor of Law, George Washington University, Washington, D.C.
• 1910-1913 Solicitor for the United States Department of State
• 1913 Appointed Counsel for the United States before Tribunal of Arbitration under Special Agreement of August 18, 1910, between the US and Great Britain — $5 million in claims.
• 1914 Counsel in charge of US Agency, American-British Claims Arbitration
• 1918 Author, Emergency Legislation and War Powers of the President
• 1919-1920 Active in the League of Nations controversy
• 1922 Utah Republican nominee for US Senate, also in 1928
• 1926 Agent of the United States, General Claims Commission, US and Mexico.
• 1927-1928 Legal Adviser to Ambassador Dwight W. Morrow, Mexico
• 1928 Author, Memorandum on the Monroe Doctrine
• 1930-1933 Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the United States to Mexico
• 1933 Sustained as Second Counselor in the First Presidency of the LDS Church, 6 April, Heber J. Grant, President
• 1933 Named member, board of trustees of Brigham Young University
• 1933 Delegate of the United States to the Seventh International Conference of American States (Pan-American Conference), Montevideo, Uruguay
• 1933 Elected Director, Equitable Life Assurance Society of the United States, New York City
• 1934 Sustained as Apostle and as First Counselor in the First Presidency, 6 October, Heber J. Grant, President
• 1934-1953 President, Director of KSL Radio Station; Vice-President and Director of Zions Cooperative Mercantile Institution (ZCMI)
• 1936 United States representative on Committee for the Study of International Loan Contracts (League of Nations)
• 1944 Elected Director, Western Pacific Railroad, San Francisco, California
• 1945 Sustained as First Counselor to President George Albert Smith, 21 May, LDS Church
• 1949 Elected Vice-President, First National Bank, 11 January
• 1949 Elected Vice-President, Utah Hotel Company, 23 February
• 1950 Elected member, board of trustees, the Roosevelt Memorial Association, 27 October
• 1951 Sustained as Second Counselor in the First Presidency of the LDS Church, 9 April, David O. McKay, President
• 1952 Elected Vice-President, Zion's Savings Bank and Trust Company, 8 January
• 1952 Elected Vice-President, Utah-Idaho Sugar Company, 20 April
• 1959 Designated First Counselor in the First Presidency of the LDS Church, 12 June, David O. McKay, President