EDITOR’S NOTE: This is the second in a series of stories about former Gem State governors from eastern Idaho. IDAHO FALLS – Chase Addison Clark had clinched a narrow victory as Idaho’s 18th governor. The year was 1940 and the 45-year-old Idaho Falls Democrat had come out on top after earning 50.48% of the vote […]
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 […]