How an Idaho Falls democrat became the state's 16th governor and started a political dynasty

This is the first in a series of stories about former Gem State Governors from eastern Idaho. IDAHO FALLS – Barzilla Clark’s election as Idaho’s 16th governor in 1936 was the culmination of an idea planned out nearly 30 years earlier. The 55-year-old Democrat had already served for a decade as Idaho Falls’ mayor when […]

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