Rush Clark

Rush Clark ( born October 1, 1834 in Schellenburg, Bedford County, Pennsylvania, † April 29, 1879 in Washington DC ) was an American politician. Between 1877 and 1879 he represented the state of Iowa in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Rush Clark attended the public schools of his home, including a school in Ligonier and Jefferson College in Canonsburg. After studying law and its made ​​in 1853 admitted to the bar, he began practicing in his new profession in Iowa City.

Clark was a member of the Republican Party. Between 1860 and 1864 he sat as an MP in the House of Representatives from Iowa. From 1863 he was president of the house. In the years 1861 and 1862, Clark was also on the staff of Governor Samuel Jordan Kirkwood. In this capacity, he helped in the establishment of a volunteer unit for use in the Civil War. Between 1862 and 1866 he was also curator of the University of Iowa. In 1876 he was again a deputy in the State Parliament.

In the congressional elections of 1876 Rush Clark was selected in the fifth electoral district of Iowa in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington. There he entered on March 4, 1877, the successor of James Wilson. After a re-election in 1878, he could remain until his death on April 29, 1879 in Congress. Very suddenly He died in the Capitol on a bout of meningitis.