John C. Clark

John Chamberlain Clark ( born January 14, 1793 in Pittsfield, Massachusetts, † October 25, 1852 in Elmira, New York) was an American lawyer and politician. Between 1827 and 1829, and 1837-1843 he represented the State of New York in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

John Chamberlain Clark was born about a decade after the end of the Revolutionary War in Berkshire County. He completed his preliminary studies. In 1811 he graduated from Williams College in Williamstown. After receiving his license to practice law, he began to practice in Hamilton. He moved in 1818 to Bainbridge in Chenango County. Between 1823 and 1827 he was district attorney ( district attorney ).

Politically, he was a member of the Jacksonian Group. In the congressional elections of 1826 for the 20th Congress Clark was in the 21st electoral district of New York in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he became the successor of Elijah Whitmore on March 4, 1827. He retired after March 3, from 1829, from the Congress. In the following years, he joined the Democratic Party. In 1836 he ran for the 25th Congress. After a successful election, he resigned on March 4, 1837 to succeed William Mason. His political orientation, however, changed after the President Martin Van Buren was announced in 1837 that he favored an independent treasury. In the following congressional elections of 1838, for the 26th Congress he was a candidate for the Whig party. He was elected to the U.S. House of Representatives. After another re-election in 1840, he retired after March 3, 1843 out of the Congress.

On 2 August 1849 he was First Auditor of the Treasury - a post he held until October 31, 1849. He moved to Chemung County. There he worked in the lumber business. He died about nine years before the outbreak of the civil war in Elmira. His body was then buried in the St. Peter's Churchyard in Bainbridge.