J. Bayard Clark

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Jerome Bayard Clark (born April 5, 1882 in Elizabethtown , Bladen County , North Carolina , †  August 26, 1959 in Fayetteville , North Carolina) was an American politician . Between 1929 and 1949 he represented the state of North Carolina in the US House of Representatives .

Career

J. Bayard Clark was born on the Phoebus Plantation near Elizabethtown. He attended public schools in his home country and Davidson College . He then studied at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill . After a subsequent law degree and his admission as a lawyer in 1906, he began to work in Elizabethtown in this profession. From 1910 and 1922 he was President of the Bank of Elizabethtown . Politically, he became a member of the Democratic Party . In 1915 he was elected to the North Carolina House of Representatives. From 1920 he lived in Fayetteville.

Clark was also a member of his party's state board between 1909 and 1919. In the 1928 congressional elections , he was elected to the US House of Representatives in Washington, DC , in the sixth constituency of North Carolina , where he succeeded Homer L. Lyon on March 4, 1929 . After nine re-elections, he was able to complete ten legislative terms in Congress by January 3, 1949 . Since 1933 he represented there as the successor of Walter Lambeth the seventh district of his state. As Congressman Clark experienced first the Great Depression and after the adoption of the New Deal -Gesetze the federal government under President Franklin D. Roosevelt . Since December 1941, the work of the Congress was determined by the events of the Second World War and its aftermath. In 1933 the 20th and 21st amendments were ratified. From 1931 to 1935, Clark was chairman of the first electoral committee.

In 1948 J. Bayard Clark declined to run again. In the following years he practiced as a lawyer again. He died on August 26, 1959 in Fayetteville, where he was also buried.

Web links

  • J. Bayard Clark in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)
personal data
SURNAME Clark, J. Bayard
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Clark, Jerome Bayard (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American politician
DATE OF BIRTH April 5, 1882
PLACE OF BIRTH near Elizabethtown , North Carolina
DATE OF DEATH August 26, 1959
Place of death Fayetteville , North Carolina