William P. Clark; Former Oxnard Police Chief, Rancher

William P. Clark, 83, former Oxnard chief of police and veteran Ventura County rancher. He was the father of William P. Clark Jr., former California Supreme Court justice who was secretary of the Department of Interior during the Reagan Administration. The senior Clark, son of Ventura County Sheriff Robert E. Clark, first worked for the U.S. Forest Service, and later as an undersheriff with his father. He was Oxnard police chief from 1947 to 1950. He managed Rancho Chismahoo and Rancho Guadalasca in Ventura County, Battle Creek Ranch in Tehama County and Loop Ranch in Kern County, and was president of Clark Land & Cattle Co. On Wednesday in Ojai.