John D. Clarke

John Davenport Clarke ( born January 15, 1873 in Hobart, Delaware County, New York, † November 5, 1933 in Delhi, New York ) was an American politician. Between 1921 and 1925, and again from 1927 to 1933, he represented the State of New York in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

John Clarke attended the public schools of his home. In 1898 he graduated from Lafayette College in Easton ( Pennsylvania). Then he studied at Colorado College in Colorado Springs, the subjects economics and history. Then he worked for the mining abbey Ling Carnegie Steel Co. Between 1901 and 1907 he worked as Assistant to the Secretary of Mines for the United States Steel Corporation. He worked also for various other mining companies. After studying law at the Brooklyn Law School and his 1912, admitted to the bar he began to work in New York City in this profession. In 1915 he moved to the Delaware County, where he worked in agriculture.

Politically, Clarke joined the Republican Party. In the congressional elections of 1920 he was in the 34th electoral district of New York in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he became the successor of William Henry Hill on March 4, 1921. After a re-election he was able to complete in Congress until March 3, 1925 two legislative sessions. In 1924, he missed the re-election. According to the preliminary end of his time in the U.S. House of Representatives, he again worked in agriculture. In the elections of 1926 Clarke was re-elected in the 34th district of his state in Congress, where he replaced Harold S. Tolley on March 4, 1927. After three re- elections he could remain there until his death. Since 1929 the work of the Congress was shaped by the events of the Great Depression.

John Clarke died on November 5, 1933 in a car accident near Delhi and was buried in his birthplace of Hobart. His widow, Marian W. Clarke was chosen as his successor in the U.S. House of Representatives.