Bayard Clarke

Bayard Clarke (born March 17, 1815 in New York City , † June 20, 1884 in Schroon Lake , New York ) was an American lawyer and politician . Between 1855 and 1857 he represented New York State in the US House of Representatives .

Career

Bayard Clarke was born in New York City about a month after the end of the British-American War . In 1836 he graduated from Geneva College . He studied law and was admitted to the bar. Between 1836 and 1840 he was attaché to the envoy to France , Lewis Cass . He studied at the Royal Cavalry School . On March 3, 1841, he was appointed second lieutenant in the eighth infantry regiment . He was assigned to the Second Dragoons in September 1841 , where he served until his resignation on December 15, 1843. He then settled in Westchester County .

He ran unsuccessfully for a seat in Congress in 1852 . In the following time he joined the opposition party . In the congressional election of 1854 for the 34th Congress , Clarke was elected to the US House of Representatives in Washington, DC , in the ninth constituency of New York , where he succeeded Jared V. Peck on March 4, 1855 . He retired from the after March 3, 1857 Congress of.

Clarke died on June 20, 1884 in Schroon Lake and was buried in a crypt in Newtown .

literature

• Franklin Benjamin Hough: "The New York civil list" , Weed, Parsons and Co., 1858, pp. 76 and 79,

Web links

• Bayard Clarke in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)