Beverly L. Clarke

Beverly L. Clarke

Beverly Leonidas Clarke (born February 11, 1809 in Winterfield , Chesterfield County , Virginia , †  March 17, 1860 in Guatemala ) was an American politician . From 1847 to 1849 he represented the state of Kentucky in the US House of Representatives . From 1858 to 1860 he was the American envoy to Guatemala.

Career

Beverly Clarke attended the public schools in his home country. In 1823 he moved to Kentucky. After studying law at Lexington Law School and being admitted to the bar in 1831, he began practicing this profession in Franklin . Clarke was a member of the Democratic Party . He was a member of the Kentucky House of Representatives in 1841 and 1842 . In the congressional election of 1846 he was elected to the US House of Representatives in Washington, DC in the second constituency of Kentucky , where he succeeded John H. McHenry on March 4, 1847 . Until March 3, 1849, he was able to complete a legislative period in Congress . During this time the Mexican-American War ended .

In 1849 he was a member of a convention to revise the Kentucky Constitution. In 1855 Clarke ran unsuccessfully for the office of governor of his state. In 1858 he was appointed US envoy to Guatemala by President James Buchanan to succeed John L. Marling , where he was also accredited to Honduras . He held this office until his death on March 17, 1860. He was buried in Frankfort .

Web links

• Beverly L. Clarke in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)

• Beverly L. Clarke in the database of Find a Grave (English)