Wesley Kanne Clark Bio/Wiki, Net Worth, Married 2018
Wesley Kanne Clark, Sr. (born December 23, 1944) is a retired General of the United States Army. He graduated as valedictorian of the class of 1966 at West Point and was awarded a Rhodes Scholarship to the University of Oxford, where he obtained a degree in Philosophy, Politics and Economics. He later graduated from the Command and General Staff College with a master's degree in military science. He spent 34 years in the Army and the Department of Defense, receiving many military decorations, several honorary knighthoods, and a Presidential Medal of Freedom.Clark commanded Operation Allied Force in the Kosovo War during his term as the Supreme Allied Commander Europe of NATO from 1997 to 2000.Clark joined the 2004 race for the Democratic Party presidential nomination as a candidate on September 17, 2003, but withdrew from the primary race on February 11, 2004, after winning the Oklahoma state primary, endorsing and campaigning for the eventual Democratic nominee, John Kerry. Clark leads a political action committee, "WesPAC", which he formed after the 2004 primaries and used to support Democratic Party candidates in the 2006 midterm elections. Clark was considered a potential candidate for the Democratic nomination in 2008, but, on September 15, 2007, endorsed Senator Hillary Clinton. After Clinton dropped out of the presidential race, Clark endorsed the then-presumptive Democratic nominee, Barack Obama. Clark serves as the co-chairman of Growth Energy, an ethanol lobbying group, and is on the board of directors of BNK Petroleum. Since July 2012, he also acts as an honorary special advisor to Romanian prime minister Victor Ponta on economic and security matters.
After being discharged from Valley Forge Hospital, he was assigned to command C Company, 6th Battalion, 32nd Armor, 194th Armored Brigade, which was a company composed entirely of wounded soldiers, at Fort Knox. Clark has stated many times that this experience is what convinced him to continue his military career past the five years commitment as required of West Point graduates, which would have concluded in 1971.
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For his injuries in the February 1970 battle, he was awarded the Silver Star and the Combat Infantryman Badge.
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In February 1970, only one month after taking command of A Company, 1st Battalion, 16th Infantry of the 1st Infantry Division, he was shot four times by a Viet Cong soldier with an AK-47. Although immobilized, he remained in command, and his unit defeated the opposing Viet Cong unit.
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His birth name was Wesley Kanne. His birth father, Benjamin Jacob Kanne, died before Wesley's fourth birthday. His stepfather, Viktor Clark, officially adopted him on his 16th birthday, making him officially Wesley Clark.
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Graduated as class Valedictorian from the West Point class of 1966.
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While he was at Oxford, a Jewish cousin, who lived in England, telephoned him and informed him of his Jewish heritage, after having received permission from his mother, Veneta Clark, who was back in Arkansas. His mother would later tell him that she did not share his Jewish heritage with him while he was a child to protect him from bullying and other anti-Semitic dangers in the Ku Klux Klan south.
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He was a Rhodes Scholar at Oxford University from 1967-68.
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Graduated from Hall High School in Little Rock, Arkansas, USA as a National Merit Scholar.
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2004 Democratic presidential candidate.
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Serves as the CEO of his own company, Wesley K. Clark and Associates.
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His only child, Wesley Clark (Wesley K. Clark, Jr.) was born in 1969 while he (Wesley K. Clark, Sr.) was serving in Vietnam.
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