Later Life and Death
Following his defeat, Clark sold mobile homes.In 1978, a federal grand jury in Montgomery indicted Clark on charges of conspiring to smuggle three tons of marijuana from Colombia. Clark was sentenced to two years in prison and ended up serving nine months. In 2006, he told the Montgomery Advertiser, "Basically, I'd do the same thing today if I had to do it all over again." He died in Elba, Alabama in June 2007 from a stroke and heart conditions.
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