Clark Benton (1887-) was an American businessman who lived in Chicago, Illinois during the Prohibition era. Benton came from an Old Stock Protestant family, and he was a staunch supporter of Republican President Herbert Hoover and his policy of "rugged individualism", having sold all of his stocks before the Great Depression and amassed a fortune, claimed that the downturn had made people "lazy" and "given them an excuse", and once told the cab driver Tommy Angelo (while taking a cab ride on 22 September 1930) "The work is always there. You just have to find it."