Augustine Clarke

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Augustine Clarke (* about 1780 in Richmond , Massachusetts , † June 17, 1841 in Montpelier , Vermont ) was an American lawyer , banker and politician who was State Treasurer of Vermont from 1833 to 1837 . Clark was one of the founders of the Anti-Masonic Party .

Life

No details are known of Clarke's birth. His name is sometimes spelled "Clark". He is believed to have been born in Richmond, Massachusetts around 1780. He was baptized on March 15, 1786 in Richmond.

Clarke moved to Vermont and studied law. He was admitted to the bar in Wheelock in 1804 . In 1806 he was also admitted to the bar in Danville .

He married Sophia Blanchard in Danville in 1808. They had three daughters and one son. Sophia Blanchard's sister Sarah was married to William A. Palmer, Vermont Governor and Senator of the United States . Palmer and Clarke were leaders of the Anti-Masonic Party.

Clarke worked as a lawyer in Danville. As a supporter of the National Republican Party , he served in several public offices, including as a justice of the peace . In 1820 he worked for the Vermont Council of Censors, a committee that meets every seven years to review the laws passed by the Vermont General Assembly and to ensure that they are constitutional. In the same year he also became a member of the American Tract Society . He was also an active member of the American Anti-Slavery Society .

For the Caledonia County he served from 1822 to 1824 as Treasurer and from 1824 to 1825 as Assistant Judge.

In 1826 he was named President of Caledonia National Bank. He succeeded Palmer who was the bank's first president.

For Danville, Clarke was elected to the Vermont House of Representatives in 1824, 1828, 1830 and 1832 . In 1830, Clark was named one of three commissioners for Jail Delivery. The Jail Delivery Commissioners were responsible for receiving prisoners serving their sentences and for keeping track of the prisoners' time in prison and for the release of prisoners whose term had ended. They also monitored parole compliance to ensure release. The commissioners also decided whether those detainees who had been arrested on account of debts were entitled to leave the prison grounds to earn money to pay their debts and to support them, in accordance with the terms of the Freedom of the Prison Familys.

Clarke was appointed to the Vermont State House Committee in 1832 . He took part in the planning and construction management for the construction of the State House. The State House operated from 1833 until it was destroyed in a fire in 1856.

He was one of the founders of the anti-Masonic movement. William Wirt ran for the Anti-Masonic Party in the presidential election in the United States in 1832 and Clarke was elector for Wirt.

Benjamin Swan was Treasurer of Vermont since 1800 and was usually elected without an opponent or with very high approval. In 1844, Clarke ran as the Anti-Masonic Party candidate against Swan and won the election. William A. Palmer was elected governor of Vermont for the Anti-Masonic Party. Clark's victory was taken as additional evidence of the viability of the anti-Masonic party in Vermont. In September 1837, Clarke was appointed to the National Committee of the Anti-Masonic Party.

Clarke held the office of treasurer until re-election in October 1837. That year, Clarke won the largest number of votes, but with 47.3% he missed the necessary majority of 50% and one vote, as required by the Vermont Constitution . In such a case, the officer is elected by the General Assembly. As the popularity of the Anti-Masonic Party was already declining and the economic crisis of 1837 put the nation under pressure. Clarke could not get the majority of the congregation. In order to fill the gap, Allen Wardner was appointed Treasurer by Governor Silas H. Jennison .

In 1839 the Anti-Masonic Party was dissolved and Clarke joined the Democratic Party . In July 1839, he was appointed a United States Pension Agent for Vermont.

Augustine Clarke's wife died in 1833. In 1840 he married Julia Jewett Hubbard.

Clarke died in Montpelier on June 17, 1841. His grave is in Elm Street Cemetery in Montpelier.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Margaret Philips: Genealogical records abstracted from the New England puritan, 1840-1841 . Heritage Books, 1989, ISBN 1-55613-172-0 .
  2. ^ Richmond (Mass.): Vital Records of Richmond, Massachusetts: To the Year 1850 . New England historic genealogical society, at the charge of the Eddy town-record fund, 1913, p. 61 .
  3. ^ Eleanor Jones Hutchinson: Town of Wheelock, Vermont's Gift to Dartmouth College . Emerson Publishing Company, 1961.
  4. ↑ Gazetteer of Caledonia and Essex Counties, Vt. 1764-1887 . Syracuse Journal Company, Printers and Binders, 1887, pp. 38 .
  5. ^ Nathaniel Bouton: The History of Concord, from Its First Grant in 1725, to the Organization of the City Government in 1853: With a History of the Ancient Penacooks . Benning W. Sanborn, 1856, p. 697 .
  6. ^ A Genealogical Register of the Descendants of George Abbot, of Andover: George Abbot, of Rowley; Thomas Abbot, of Andover; Arthur Abbot, of Ipswich; Robert Abbot, of Branford, Ct. - and George Abbot, of Norwalk, Ct . J. Munroe, 1847, p. 146 .
  7. ^ The New Yorker, "a Weekly Journal of Literature, Politics, Statistics, and General Intelligence." H. Greeley & Company, 1836, p. 410 .
  8. ↑ JOURNAL . 1829, p. 82 .
  9. ^ Vermont Supreme Court: Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the Supreme Court of the State of Vermont . J. Spooner, 1835, p. 561 .
  10. ^ Zadock Thompson: History of Vermont, Natural, Civil, and Statistical . For the author, by C. Goodrich, 1842.
  11. ^ American Tract Society (Boston Mass.), New England Tract Society: Proceedings of the first ten years of the American Tract Society instituted at Boston, 1814: to which is added a brief view of the principal religious tract societies throughout the world . Printed for The American Tract Society by Flagg and Gould, 1824, pp. 93 .
  12. ^ The Abolitionist . Garrison and Knapp, 1833, pp. 177 .
  13. ^ American Anti-Slavery Society: Annual Report . American Anti-Slavery Society, 1834, pp. 35 .
  14. ↑ Owen W. Mülder: Theodore Dwight Weld and the American Anti-Slavery Society . McFarland, 2011, ISBN 978-0-7864-8853-7 , pp. 190 .
  15. ↑ Gazetteer of Caledonia and Essex Counties, Vtermont pp. 36, 38
  16. ↑ The Numismatic Scrapbook Magazine . Hewitt Bros., 1964.
  17. ^ Leonard Deming: Catalog of the principal officers of Vermont: as connected with its political history, from 1778 to 1851 . The author, 1851, p. 28 .
  18. ^ Journal General Assembly of the State of Vermont . 1830, p. 133 .
  19. ↑ Vermont: The Laws of Vermont, of a Publick and Permanent Nature: Coming Down To, and Including, the Year 1824. To which are Prefixed, the Declaration of Independence, the Articles of Confederation, and the Constitutions of the United States and of Vermont . state, 1825, p. 240 .
  20. ^ Vermont: Records of the Governor and Council of the State of Vermont: Record of the Governor and Council, 1804-1813 . J. & JM Poland, 1877, pp. 435 .
  21. ^ Vermont Office of Secretary of State: Vermont Legislative Directory . Rand, Avery, 1888, pp. 77 .
  22. ^ Vermont, Eliakim Persons Walton: Records of the Governor and Council of the State of Vermont: Record of the Governor and Council, 1831-1836 . J. & JM Poland, 1880, pp. 106 .
  23. ^ Niles' National Register . William Ogden Niles, 1838, p. 68 .
  24. ↑ https://www.sec.state.vt.us/media/57320/1837.pdf. (PDF) In: www.sec.state.vt.us. Retrieved July 7, 2015 .
  25. ^ Vermont General Assembly Senate: Journal of the Senate of the State of Vermont . 1836.
  26. ^ Vermont State Archives & Records Administration | Home | Vermont Secretary of State. (PDF) (No longer available online.) In: vermont-archives.org. Archived from the original on February 15, 2012 ; Retrieved July 2, 2015 .
  27. ↑ Horace Greeley, Park Benjamin: The New-Yorker . H. Greeley & Company, 1839, p. 282 .
  28. ↑ An Account of the Receipts and Expenditures of the United States 1839, page 123
  29. ^ Danville, VT Cemetery Listings - Last Names AC. In: www.rootsweb.ancestry.com. Retrieved January 5, 2014 .
  30. ^ Vermont Marriages . Research publication Company, 1903, pp. 29 .
  31. ↑ Vermont Vital Records, 1720–1908, wedding entry for Augustine Clarke and Julia Hubbard, accessed January 5, 2014
  32. ^ Abby Maria Hemenway: The Vermont Historical Gazetteer: A Magazine, Embracing a History of Each Town, Civil, Ecclesiastical, Biographical and Military . 1882, p. 527 .
  33. ↑ Vermont Vital Records, 1720–1908, death record for Augustine Clarke, accessed January 5, 2014

Remarks

  1. The New England Puritan Death Notice reads: “In Montpelier, VT, 17th inst., Hon. Augustine CLARKE, 62, late Tr. of the state. For many yrs. Judge CLARKE resided in Danville and filled various offices in that town, and in the Co. of Caledonia. “An age of 62 years would mean that Clarke would have been born in 1778 or 1779.
  2. In the obituary notice in the Vermont Historical Gazeteer, his age is given as 59 years. If so, he would have been born in 1781 or 1782.
  3. The Vermont Death Record for Augustine Clarke puts his age at 60. This would mean he would have been born in 1780 or 1781.

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personal data
SURNAME Clarke, Augustine
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American politician, lawyer, banker, and treasurer of Vermont
DATE OF BIRTH around 1780
PLACE OF BIRTH Richmond , Massachusetts
DATE OF DEATH June 17, 1841
Place of death Montpelier , Vermont