John Blades Clarke

John Blades Clarke (born April 14, 1833 in Augusta , Bracken County , Kentucky , †  May 23, 1911 in Brooksville , Kentucky) was an American politician . Between 1875 and 1879 he represented the state of Kentucky in the US House of Representatives .

Career

John Clarke attended public schools in his home country. In the winter months of 1851 and 1852 he taught himself as a teacher. After studying law and its made in 1854 admitted to the bar he began in Rockport ( Indiana to work) in this profession. In December 1855, he moved his office and residence to Brooksville. Between 1858 and 1862 he was a prosecutor in the local Bracken County.

Politically, he became a member of the Democratic Party . Clarke was a member of the Kentucky Senate between 1867 and 1870 . In the congressional elections of 1874 he was elected to the United States House of Representatives in Washington, DC in the tenth constituency of Kentucky , where he succeeded John Duncan Young on March 4, 1875 . After a re-election in 1876, he was able to complete two terms in Congress until March 3, 1879 . In 1878 John Clarke renounced another congressional candidacy. In the following years he practiced again as a lawyer in Brooksville. He died there on May 23, 1911.

Web links

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

• John Blades Clarke in the database of Find a Grave (English)