William Clark (congressman)

William Clark ( * February 18, 1774 in Dauphin, Dauphin County, Pennsylvania, † March 28, 1851 ) was an American politician. Between 1833 and 1837 he represented the State of Pennsylvania in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

About the education of William Clark, nothing is handed down. In the years 1793 and 1795 he was a captain of militia in Dauphin County. Then he moved to the Crawford County, where he worked as an Associate Justice 1803-1818. He was also from 1800 to 1817 Inspector of the National Guard in the western part of his state. Clark also took part in the British -American War. He was involved in a naval battle on Lake Erie. Between 1818 and 1821 he served as Head of Cadastre Authority in the State; 1821 to 1827 he served as State Treasurer Treasury of Pennsylvania. From 1828 to 1829 he held the post of Treasurer of the United States from the U.S. Treasury.

Clark joined the Anti- Masonic Party, and was in the congressional elections of 1832 as their candidate in the tenth electoral district of Pennsylvania in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he became the successor of Adam King on March 4, 1833. After a re-election he was able to complete in Congress until March 3, 1837 two legislative sessions. Since the inauguration of President Andrew Jackson in 1829, was discussed inside and outside of Congress vehemently about its policy. It was about the controversial enforcement of the Indian Removal Act, the conflict with the State of South Carolina, which culminated in the Nullifikationskrise, and banking policy of the President.

In 1837, William Clark attended a Constitutional Convention of the State of Pennsylvania as a delegate. Otherwise, he worked in agriculture. He died on March 28, 1851 near his birthplace Dauphin.

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