Henry Alden Clark

Henry Alden Clark ( born January 7, 1850 in Harbor Creek, Erie County, Pennsylvania, † February 15, 1944 in Erie, Pennsylvania ) was an American politician. Between 1917 and 1919 he represented the State of Pennsylvania in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Henry Clark attended the public schools of his home and thereafter until 1864, the Erie Academy. In the years 1865 and 1866, he graduated from the State Normal School in Edinboro and in 1867 the Willoughby Collegiate Institute. Then he taught for some time as a teacher. At the same time, he continued his own education to 1870 continued at the Erie Central High School. This was followed up in 1874 to study at Harvard University. After a subsequent law degree from the same university in 1878 and was admitted to his lawyer, he began to work in this profession. Until 1887, he worked for the electric company of Thomas Alva Edison. Since 1882 he lived in Erie, where he struck as a member of the Republican Party a political career. In 1888 he was a member of the local city council; In 1890 he was the Republican city and county chairman. Between 1890 and 1892 Clark also published the newspaper Erie Gazette. From 1896 to 1899 he was a legal representative of the town of Erie.

In the years 1911, 1913 and 1915, Clark sat in the Senate of Pennsylvania. In the congressional elections of 1916, he was in the 25th electoral district of Pennsylvania in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he succeeded the Democrats Michael Liebel on March 4, 1917. Since he resigned in 1918 to further candidacy, he was able to complete only one term in Congress until March 3, 1919. This was marked by the events of the First World War.

After the end of his time in the U.S. House of Representatives Henry Clark practiced as a lawyer again. Between 1921 and 1931 he was a judge in guardianship court in Erie County. He died at the age of 94 years on February 15, 1944 in Erie, where he was also buried.