Frank Gay Clarke

Frank Gay Clarke

Frank Gay Clarke (born September 10, 1850 in Wilton , Hillsborough County , New Hampshire , †  January 9, 1901 in Peterborough , New Hampshire) was an American politician . Between 1897 and 1901 he represented the state of New Hampshire in the US House of Representatives .

Career

Frank Clarke attended the Kimball Union Academy in Meriden and then Dartmouth College in Hanover . After a subsequent law degree and his admission as a lawyer in 1876, he began to practice in Peterborough in this profession.

Clarke was a member of the Republican Party . In 1885 he was elected to the New Hampshire House of Representatives. He was then until 1887 as a Colonel military adviser on the staff of the Governor of New Hampshire. In 1889, Clarke was elected to the New Hampshire Senate. Two years later he was again a member of the State House of Representatives, whose speaker he became in 1891.

In 1896 Clarke was elected to the US House of Representatives in Washington in the second constituency of New Hampshire , where he succeeded Henry Moore Baker on March 4, 1897 . After a re-election in 1898, he was able to exercise his mandate in Congress until his death on January 9, 1901. During his time as Congressman, the Spanish-American War broke out in 1898 and as a result some new territories, including the Philippines , were annexed to the United States.

Web links

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

• Frank Gay Clarke in the database of Find a Grave (English)