John Bullock Clark

John Bullock Clark

John Bullock Clark (born April 17, 1802 in Madison County , Kentucky , †  October 29, 1885 in Fayette , Missouri ) was an American politician ( Democratic Party ). He represented the state of Missouri in the US House of Representatives and during the War of Civilization in the Confederate Congress .

John Bullock Clark, whose uncle James Clark Governor of Kentucky, was first attended the village school before it the rights studied and was admitted to the bar in the 1824th He opened a law practice in Fayette and was employed by Howard County District Court until 1834 . In the Black Hawk War , Clark served as a colonel in a Missouri volunteer regiment; In 1848 he was promoted to major general in the state militia.

His political career began with membership in the House of Representatives from Missouri from 1850 to 1851. After the resignation of MP James S. Green , Clark was appointed to the US House of Representatives; it was re-elected twice. On July 13, 1861, he was expelled from Congress as a supporter of the Confederation .

The first Confederate Congress was John Bullock Clark as a Senator ; in the second Congress he was elected as a member of the House of Representatives, where he remained until the defeat of the Confederation on May 10, 1865. He also fought in the Civil War as Brigadier General of the Missouri State Guard ; his son John also took part in the war with the rank of general and was later a member of the US House of Representatives.

After the war, Clark worked again as a lawyer in Fayette, where he died in 1885.

Web links

• John Bullock Clark in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)