Beverly L. Clarke

Beverly Leonidas Clarke ( born February 11, 1809 in Winter, Chesterfield County, Virginia; † March 17, 1860 in Guatemala ) was an American politician. Between 1847 and 1849 he represented the state of Kentucky in the U.S. House of Representatives. From 1858 to 1860 he was an American ambassador to Guatemala.

Career

Beverly Clarke attended the public schools of his home. In 1823 he moved to Kentucky. After studying law at the Lexington Law School and was admitted as an attorney of his 1831 he began to practice in this profession in Franklin. Clarke was a member of the Democratic Party. In the years 1841 and 1842 he sat as an MP in the House of Representatives from Kentucky. In the congressional elections of 1846 he was in the second electoral district of Kentucky in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he became the successor of John H. McHenry on March 4, 1847. Until March 3, 1849, he was able to complete a term in Congress. During this time, ended the Mexican -American War.

In 1849 he was a member of a meeting on the revision of the Constitution of Kentucky. 1855 Clarke ran unsuccessfully for the governorship of his state. In 1858 he was appointed by President James Buchanan as the successor of John L. Marling to the U.S. ambassador to Guatemala, where he was also accredited to Honduras. This office he held until his death on March 17, 1860. He was buried in Frankfort.

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