Clarence Munroe Clark (August 27, 1859 – June 29, 1937) was an American financier who helped develop electric light, power, and streetcar companies, as well as a noted tennis player.
He married the sister of his doubles partner, Taylor, who would go on to a noted career as an engineer and organizational theorist.
In 1900, Clark became a partner in his family's firm, E. W. Clark & Co., placed in charge of public utility investments. "He was a pioneer in the development of electric light, electric power, and electric street railway companies," according to his obituary in the New York Times. At various times, he was a president of the Nashville Railway and Light Company, the Tennessee Electric Power Company, the Portland (Ore.) Electric Power Company, as well as a director or other official of many more companies.[1]
Clark endowed a professorship in Mountain Agriculture at Berea College.[2]