Governor Edward Clark

Marshall was Clark's home before and after his governorship. The Handbook of Texas says he had opened a law practice here by December 1841 and in July 1849 married Martha Melissa Evans, daughter of the Marshall resident William F. Evans. His reported property in 1860 included nine enslaved people. He fled to Mexico in 1865 and came back to Marshall, and in 1878 he became a founding member and permanent chairman of the Citizen's Party of Harrison County. He died on May 4, 1880.

What the plaque says

Governor Edward Clark (1815-1880) Born in Georgia. Came to Texas in 1842. Served as a member of Annexation Convention. Fought in war with Mexico. Held office as State Representative, Senator, Secretary of State, Lieutenant Governor; Governor in 1861. Raised and led 14th Texas Infantry Regiment in Red River campaigns of Civil War. Wounded in Battle of Pleasant Hill, 1865. Was a lawyer and businessman after the war. (1967)

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Texas and Pacific Railway Depot and Museum — steps away
  The only surviving building of the Texas and Pacific shops at Marshall, a 1912 Mission Revival depot saved from demolition in the 1990s, still an Amtrak stop, with a railway museum and a Mikado locomotive.
• Harrison County Historical Museum — 0.4 mi
  Galleries in Marshall's 1901 courthouse that run from the Caddo to the present, with Wiley College, Lady Bird Johnson's inaugural gown and a military gallery across the square in Memorial City Hall.
• Starr Family Home State Historic Site — 0.7 mi
  Maplecroft, the 1871 Greek Revival house Frank Starr built in Marshall, with Ruth Starr Blake's glass and china, an 1880s kitchen restored in 2019 and a retirement home built for a formerly enslaved person.
• Caddo Lake National Wildlife Refuge — 14 mi
  Wetlands and woods on part of a former ammunition plant, now a refuge for wood ducks, prothonotary warblers and alligator snapping turtles, with four easy trails and a free visitor center on a Ramsar lake.

More markers nearby

• Marshall, C.S.A. — steps away
• Walter Paye Lane — steps away
• John T. Mills — steps away
• Marshall Cemetery — steps away