John Blades Clarke

John Blades Clarke ( * April 14, 1833 in Augusta, Bracken County, Kentucky, † May 23, 1911 in Brooksville, Kentucky ) was an American politician. Between 1875 and 1879 he represented the state of Kentucky in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

John Clarke attended the public schools of his home. During the winter months of 1851 and 1852, he taught himself as a teacher. After studying law and his 1854 was admitted to the bar he began in Rockport (Indiana) to work in this profession. In December 1855 he moved his office and his residence to Brooksville. Between 1858 and 1862 he was a prosecutor in the local Bracken County.

Politically, he was a member of the Democratic Party. Between 1867 and 1870, Clarke was a member of the Senate from Kentucky. In the congressional elections of 1874 he was in the tenth electoral district of Kentucky in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he became the successor of John Duncan Young on March 4, 1875. After a re-election in 1876 he was able to complete in Congress until March 3, 1879 two legislative sessions. 1878 John Clarke gave up another Congress candidate. In the following years he practiced as a lawyer again in Brooksville. There he is on May 23, 1911 and passed away.