Lincoln Clark

Lincoln Clark

Lincoln Clark (born August 9, 1800 in Conway , Massachusetts , †  September 16, 1886 ) was an American politician . Between 1851 and 1853 he represented the state of Iowa in the US House of Representatives .

Career

Lincoln Clark attended both public and private schools in his homeland and then Amherst College in Massachusetts until 1825 . After a subsequent law degree and his admission as a lawyer in 1831, he began in Pickensville ( Alabama ) to practice in this profession. In Alabama he began his political career as a member of the Democratic Party . He was a member of the Alabama House of Representatives in 1834, 1835, and 1845 . From 1836 he lived in Tuscaloosa . In 1839, Clark was appointed Attorney General of his new home state. In 1846 he was also a district judge in Alabama.

In 1848 Clark moved to Dubuque , Iowa. In the 1850 congressional elections, he was elected to the House of Representatives in Washington, DC , against John Parsons Cook , the Whig Party candidate , in the second constituency of Iowa . There he took over from Shepherd Leffler on March 4, 1851 . Since he lost to Cook in the elections of 1852, he was only able to complete one term in Congress until March 3, 1853 .

In 1854, Clark ran unsuccessfully to return to Congress. In 1857 he was elected to the Iowa House of Representatives. In the presidential election of 1860 he supported Stephen A. Douglas . He later moved to Chicago where he practiced as a lawyer. In 1866 he became a federal employee for bankruptcy proceedings ( Register in Bankruptcy ). In 1869, Lincoln Clark retired. He returned to his native Conway, Massachusetts, where he died in September 1886.

Web links

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

• Lincoln Clark in the database of Find a Grave (English)

Wikisource: History of Iowa - Lincoln Clark  - Sources and full texts