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{{Infobox University Chancellor
| name        = Clark Kerr
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| university  = [[University of California, Berkeley]]
| term_start  = [[1958]]
| term_end    = [[1967]]
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|first=Grace
|date=[[December 2]], 2003
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===Target of the United States Government===
In 2002, the [[FBI]] had Kerr blacklisted as part of a campaign to suppress people at UC deemed subversive.<ref>
[http://sfgate.com/news/special/pages/2002/campusfiles SF Gate: The Campus Files. A Chronicle Special<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref>  This information had been classified by the FBI and was only released after a fifteen-year legal battle that went all the way to the US Supreme Court.  President [[Lyndon Johnson]] had picked Kerr to become secretary of Health, Education and Welfare but withdrew the nomination after the FBI background check on Kerr included damaging information the agency knew to be false. 

[[Edwin Pauley]] approached the CIA Director [[John McCone]] (a Berkeley alum and associate) for assistance.  McCone in turn met with FBI Director [[J. Edgar Hoover]].<ref>[http://sfgate.com/news/special/pages/2002/campusfiles SF Gate: The Campus Files. A Chronicle Special<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref><ref>[http://sfgate.com/news/special/pages/2002/campusfiles/documents/5b.shtml SF Gate: News: The Campus Files<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref>
Hoover agreed to supply Pauley with confidential FBI information on "ultra-liberal" regents, faculty members, and students, and to assist in removing Kerr.  Pauley received dozens of briefings from the FBI to this end. The FBI assisted Pauley and [[Ronald Reagan]] in painting Kerr as a dangerous "liberal."

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Kerr died in his sleep following complications from a fall at age 92.

The [[Clark Kerr Medal]] is named in his honor.  There are Kerr Halls, named for Clark Kerr, on the campuses of [[UC Davis]] and [[UC Santa Cruz]].<ref>
[http://www.ucsc.edu/about/vtour/kerr.asp UCSC - Virtual Tour: Kerr Hall<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref>

==References==
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*Kerr, Clark, ''The Gold and the Blue: A Personal Memoir of the University of California, 1949-1967''
*Kerr, Clark, ''The Uses of the University''
*Burress, Charles. ''"The Long, Hard Years at Berkley; Second Volume of Clark Kerr’s Memoir Covers Politics and ‘Blunders’”'' San Francisco Chronicle 9 Feb. 2003, Sunday Review Pg. 1.
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