Frank Clark (politician)
Frank Clark ( born March 28, 1860 in Eufaula, Alabama, † April 14, 1936 in Washington DC ) was an American politician. Between 1905 and 1925 he represented the state of Florida in the U.S. House of Representatives.
Career
Frank Clark attended public schools in Alabama and Georgia. After a subsequent study of law and its made in 1881 admitted to the bar he began in Newnan to work in his new profession. In 1884 he moved to the Polk County in Florida. In 1885 and 1886 he acted as legal representative of the city of Bartow.
Politically, Clark was a member of the Democratic Party. Between 1889 and 1891, and again in 1899 he sat as an MP in the House of Representatives from Florida. Since 1893 he was first deputy and from 1894 to 1897 at all responsible federal prosecutor for the Southern District of the State of Florida. In 1895 he moved to Jacksonville, where he later practiced as a lawyer again. In 1900, Clark was chairman of the Democrats in Florida. In 1920 he was a delegate to the Democratic National Convention in part in San Francisco, was nominated for the James M. Cox as their presidential candidate.
In the congressional elections of 1904 Clark was elected in the second district of Florida in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington, where he became the successor of Robert Wyche Davis on March 4, 1905. After nine elections he could until March 3, 1925 ten legislative periods in Congress complete in this time were, among others, the First World War and the adoption of the 16th, 17th, 18th and 19th Verfassungszusatztes. From 1913 to 1919, Clark was chairman of the committee which dealt with the state real estate.
1924 Frank Clark was not nominated by his party for re-election. In the following years he practiced as a lawyer in Miami. Between 1928 and 1930 he was a member of the Federal Customs Commission ( United States Tariff Commission ). He then practiced in the federal capital Washington as a lawyer. From November 1933 until his death on 14 April 1936, he was a lawyer of the tax authority in the U.S. Treasury. Clark was known as a segregationist.