Robert Clark

Robert Clark is an American archivist with a background in history and law. He is currently the Director of Archives at the Rockefeller Archive Center in New York. His work in law and archives, as well as his support of the LGBTQ Community has made him well known in the archives profession as well as across the country. He is frequent guest speaker at events and conferences pertaining to history, archives and libraries. He is most well known for his work with the Franklin D. Roosevelt Presidential Library and Museum, where he served as archivist and Director for over ten years.

Early life and education Clark was born and raised in Denton, Texas. In 1985, he began his undergraduate education at Texas Tech University, where he received both his Bachelor's and Master's Degrees in History and Archival Administration. In 1991, he began work at Syracuse University College of Law, where he attended until 1994.

Professional career While a student at Texas Tech, Clark began working as an Student Assistant Archivist in the Southwest Collection. He remained throughout his undergraduate and graduate career, eventually promoted to Assistant Archivist and Field Representative.

From 1993 to 1996, Clark worked with a few law firms while he was studying law and in 1996, he became Vice President of the International Bank in Raton, New Mexico. In 1998, he became Senior Attorney for a law firm in Albuquerque before moving to New York in 2001. While he was Supervisory Archivist, the famous Barry Landau theft occurred which "rocked the archival world." This enhanced his interest in improving security both at the FDR Library as well as later at the Rockefeller Center.

While serving at the Roosevelt Library, Clark oversaw the care of over 17 million pages of manuscript materials, including the papers of FDR and Eleanor Roosevelt, printed materials and audio-visual and photographic collections.

Affiliations

Chair of the New York State Historical Records Advisory Board (SHRAB), which is a committee that advises the LGBT Center "Thomas A. Hickey: Texas Socialist and Oilman", West Texas Historical Association Yearbook, LXVI (1990), pp. 129–138.January 1, 1990 (This article was based on Clark's Master's Thesis, entitled "Thomas A. Hickey and Socialist Reform in Texas, 1904-1925", Texas Tech University, 1989.)