Charles B. Clark

Charles Benjamin Clark ( born August 24, 1844 in Theresa, Jefferson County, New York, † September 10, 1891 in Watertown, New York ) was an American politician. Between 1887 and 1891 he represented the state of Wisconsin in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Charles Clark attended the public schools of his home. In 1855 he came with his widowed mother to Wisconsin, where the family settled in Neenah in Winnebago County. During the Civil War Clark served in an upcoming Wisconsin infantry unit of the Union Army. After the war he worked in the trade, in banking and in the paper industry.

Politically, Clark member of the Republican Party. From 1880 to 1883 he served as mayor of Neenah. After that, he was until 1885 a member of the local city council. In 1885 he was elected to the Wisconsin State Assembly. In the congressional elections of 1886, Clark was the sixth electoral district of Wisconsin in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he became the successor of Richard W. Guenther on March 4, 1887. After a re-election he was able to complete in Congress until March 3, 1891 two legislative sessions.

In the elections of 1890 he was defeated by Democrat Lucas M. Miller. Charles Clark died just six months after his retirement from the U.S. House of Representatives during a visit to Watertown. He was buried in his hometown of Neenah.

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