Ambrose W. Clark

Ambrose Williams Clark ( * February 19, 1810 in Cooperstown, New York, † October 13, 1887 in Watertown, New York) was an American publisher, lawyer and politician. Between 1861 and 1865 he represented the State of New York in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Ambrose Williams Clark was born about two years before the outbreak of the British - American War in Otsego County. He attended public schools. Clark worked as a publisher. He gave 1831-1836 the Otsego Journal out 1836-1844 the Northern Journal in Lewis County and 1844-1860 the Northern New York Journal in Watertown. He also spent five years as guardianship and estate Richter ( surrogate ). Politically, he was a member of the Republican Party.

In the congressional elections of 1860 for the 37th Congress Clark was in the 20th electoral district of New York in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he became the successor of Roscoe Conkling March 4, 1861. He was re-elected once and then retired after the March 3, 1865 from the Congress of. During his two terms of office of civil war prevailed in the United States.

President Abraham Lincoln appointed him in 1865 as consul in Valparaiso - a position which he held until 1869. During the absence of the ambassador in Chile in 1869, he served there as Chargé d' Affaires. He died on 13 October 1887 in Watertown, and was then buried in the Brookside Cemetery.