Former state Senate President James Clark Jr., a farmer who was the father of Maryland?s programs preserving open space and farmland, died Thursday of the prostate cancer he had been battling for months. He was 87.
Clark, son of a judge, served in the House of Delegates for one term and then was elected as Howard County?s only state senator in 1962, serving in the Senate for 24 years, chairing a number of committees and elected by his colleagues as Senate president from 1979-82.
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