Clarence Faulk

{{Notability|1=Person|date=April 2023}}

{{short description|American journalist}}

{{Infobox person

| name = Clarence Eugene Faulk, Jr.

| image = Publisher_Clarence_Faulk_of_LA.jpg

| image_size = 175px

| caption = Fauln election as president of the Louisiana Press Association (1950)

| birth_date = {{birth date|1909|1|9}}

| birth_place = West Monroe, Ouachita Parish
Louisiana, USA

| death_place = Ruston, Lincoln Parish
Louisiana

| death_date = {{death date and age|2010|3|5|1909|1|9}}

| resting_place = Greenwood Cemetery in Ruston

| alma_mater = University of the South

University of Missouri School of Journalism

| party =

| spouse = Louise Benson Page Faulk (married 1931-2003, her death)

| children = Clarence Faulk, III

W. Page Faulk

Amelia Faulk Rauser

| parents = Clarence Faulk, Sr.

Josephine McClendon Faulk

| footnotes =

}}

Clarence Eugene Faulk, Jr. (January 9, 1909 – March 5, 2010), was an American journalist who published from 1931 to 1962 the Ruston Daily Leader, the daily newspaper in Ruston in north Louisiana.{{cite web|url=http://www.katc.com/news/clarence-faulk-ruston-daily-leaders-ex-publisher/|title=Clarence Faulk: Ruston Daily Leader's ex-publisher|publisher=katc.com|access-date=May 24, 2012|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://archive.today/20120905192949/http://www.katc.com/news/clarence-faulk-ruston-daily-leaders-ex-publisher/|archive-date=September 5, 2012}} Through the ownership of KRUS-AM radio, Faulk was a broadcaster. He was also engaged in real estate and a pioneer of self-storage warehousing, a business that he did not launch until after he was seventy years of age.{{cite web|url=http://www.legacy.com/obituaries/shreveporttimes/obituary.aspx?n=Clarence-Faulk&pid=140377017|title=Clarence Eugene Faulk, Jr., obituary|publisher=Shreveport Times, March 7, 2010|access-date=May 24, 2012}}