Samuel Clark

Samuel Clark ( * January 1800 in Clarksville, Cayuga County, New York, † October 2, 1870 in Kalamazoo, Michigan ) was an American politician. Between 1833 and 1835, he represented the State of New York and from 1853 to 1855 the state of Michigan in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Samuel Clark attended Hamilton College in Clinton. After a subsequent law school in Auburn and its admission to the bar he began to work in his new career in 1826 in Waterloo. Politically, Clark joined the later President Andrew Jackson and his Democratic Party.

In the congressional elections of 1832 he was in the 25th electoral district of New York in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he became the successor of Gamaliel H. Barstow on March 4, 1833. Until March 3, 1835, he was able to complete a term in Congress. This was marked by discussions on the policies of President Jackson. It was about the controversial implementation of the Indian Removal Act, which Nullifikationskrise with the State of South Carolina and banking policy of the President.

In 1842, Samuel Clark moved to Kalamazoo, Michigan, where he practiced law and also his political career continued. In 1850 he was a member of a meeting to revise the Constitution of Michigan. For the 1852 elections he was elected in the third district of his state as the successor of James L. Conger again in Congress. Since he Republican David S. Walbridge was defeated in the elections of 1854, he could again spend a term in the U.S. House of Representatives between March 1853 and March 1855. This was determined by the discussions about slavery and other events leading up to the Civil War.

After his final retirement from Congress in 1856 Clark Head of the Cadastral Office in the northeastern part of Minnesota Territory in the year. He then worked for some time as a lawyer; then he withdrew from both the profession and from politics and devoted himself to agriculture. He died on October 2, 1870 in Kalamazoo.