Lot Clark

Lot Clark ( * May 23, 1788 in Hillsdale, New York, † December 18, 1862 in Buffalo, New York) was an American lawyer and politician. Between 1823 and 1825 he represented the State of New York in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Lot Clark was born about five years after the end of the Revolutionary War in Columbia County. 1796 the family moved to Otsego County. Clark pursued an academic career. He studied law. After receiving his license to practice law on June 11, 1816, he began practicing in Norwich. He was 1822 and 1823 district attorney ( district attorney ) in Chenango County.

As a result of fragmentation of the Democratic-Republican Party before and during the presidency of John Quincy Adams (1825-1829), he joined the Crawford Group. In the congressional elections of 1822 Clark was in the 21st electoral district of New York in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he succeeded Elijah Spencer and Albert H. Tracy took on March 4, 1823 which together previously represented the 21th District in the U.S. House of Representatives. He retired after the March 3, 1825 out of the Congress.

On 29 April 1825 he was appointed postmaster of Norwich - a post he held until April 12, 1828. Thereafter, he served in 1828 and in 1829 as District Attorney in Chenango County. In 1829 he moved to Lockport, where he continued his activities as a lawyer. In the same year he became president of the Lockport Bank. He was a member and agent of the so-called Albany Company - owners of all unsold land in the Niagara and Orleans County and the northern parts of Genesee and Erie County. In 1835 he moved to Bufallo. He sat in 1846 in the New York State Assembly. Later, he was project manager for the construction of the first rope bridge across the Niagara Gorge. Clark was president of the Supension Bridge Company - a post he held until his death. He died during the Civil War in Buffalo and was then buried in the Green-Wood Cemetery in the then still independent city of Brooklyn.