Father: Benjamin Kanne (d. 1948)
Mother: Veneta Updegraff Bogard
Father: Victor Clark (stepfather)
Wife: Gertrude Kingston ("Gert", m. Jun-1966)
Son: Wesley, Jr. (b. 1969)
High School: Hall High School, Little Rock, AR
University:BA, US Military Academy, West Point (1966)
University:BA, Oxford University (1968)
Professor:US Military Academy, West Point
University:US Army War College
President's Commission on White House Fellowships
Steve Norris Partners Investment Committee
CNN Senior Military Analyst
Atlantic Council Director
Center for Strategic & International Studies Senior Adviser (2000-)
The Constitution Project Liberty and Security Initiative
International Crisis Group Board
Markle Foundation Task Force on National Security in the Information Age
National Endowment for Democracy Board Member
VoteVets Board of Advisors
Shot: Battle Vietnam
Converted to Catholicism
Visited Burning Man
Rhodes Scholarship
Defense Distinguished Service Medal
Army Distinguished Service Medal
Purple Heart
Bronze Star
Silver Star
Legion of Merit
Presidential Medal of Freedom 2000
Knight of the British Empire
French Legion of Honor
White House Fellows (1975-76)
Jewish Ancestry Paternal
Manufacturing Dissent (11-Feb-2007)
Author of books:
Waging Modern War: Bosnia, Kosovo and the Future of Combat (2001)
AKA Wesley Kanne Clark