Marian W. Clarke

Marian Williams Clarke ( born July 29, 1880 in the Bradford County, Pennsylvania, † April 8, 1953 in Cooperstown, New York) was an American politician. Between 1933 and 1935, she represented the State of New York in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

In 1881, Marian Williams moved with her parents to Cheyenne in Wyoming Territory. She attended the public schools of their new home and studied for a year at the Art Academy of the University of Nebraska in Lincoln. In 1902 she graduated from Colorado College in Colorado Springs. Between 1881 and 1918 she lived in seven states. In 1918, she moved to the Delaware County in New York, where they settled on a farm. She married the politician John D. Clarke.

After the death of her husband, who died as a congressman, was Marian Clarke as a candidate of the Republican Party in the election due for the 34th seat from New York as his successor in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where they took up their new mandate on 28 December 1933. In 1934, she toyed with the idea of another nomination. However, they drew this before the start of the primaries back. Therefore, it was able to complete only one term in Congress until January 3, 1935. During this time the first New Deal legislation of the Roosevelt administration there were adopted, which their party faced a rather negative. 1935, the provisions of the 20th Amendment to the Constitution were first applied, after which the term of the Congress ends or begins on January 3.

After the end of their time in the U.S. House of Representatives Marian Clarke moved back to 1950 on their farm Arbor Hill near Delhi. She died on 8 April 1953 in Cooperstown.