Lot Clark

Lot Clark (born May 23, 1788 in Hillsdale , New York , † December 18, 1862 in Buffalo , New York) was an American lawyer and politician . Between 1823 and 1825 he represented New York State in the US House of Representatives .

Career

Lot Clark was born in Columbia County about five years after the War of Independence ended . In 1796 the family moved to Otsego County . Clark had an academic career. He studied law . After receiving his license to practice law on June 11, 1816, he began practicing in Norwich . He served as a district attorney in Chenango County in 1822 and 1823 .

As a result of a fragmentation of the Democratic Republican Party before and during the presidency of John Quincy Adams (1825-1829), he joined the Crawford faction. In the congressional elections of 1822 Clark in the 21st was  electoral district of New York in the US House of Representatives in Washington, DC chosen, where he succeeds on March 4, 1823 Elijah Spencer and Albert H. Tracy took that together before the 21 Represented district in the US House of Representatives. He retired from the after March 3, 1825 Congress of.

On April 29, 1825, he was appointed Postmaster of Norwich - a post he held until April 12, 1828. He then served as the county attorney in Chenango County in 1828 and 1829. In 1829 he moved to Lockport , where he continued his practice as a lawyer. In the same year he became President of Lockport Bank . He was a member and agent of the so-called Albany Company - owners of all unsold land in Niagara and Orleans Counties and the northern parts of Genesee and Erie Counties . In 1835 he moved to Buffalo. He was a member of the New York State Assembly in 1846 . Later he was project manager for the construction of the first cable bridge over the Niagara Gorge . Clark became president of the Supension Bridge Company - a position he held until his death. He died on December 18, 1862 in Buffalo and was then buried in Green-Wood Cemetery in the then still separate city of Brooklyn .

literature

• The New York Civil List , Franklin Benjamin Hough, Weed, Parsons and Co., 1858, pp. 71, 232, 265 and 371.
• Lockport: Historic Jewel of the Erie Canal , Kathleen L. Riley, Arcadia Publishing, 2005, ISBN 0738524778 , p. 123.
• Niagara: A History of the Falls , Niagara: A History of the Falls, SUNY Press, 2009, ISBN 1438429304 , p. 82.
• Obituary - Capt. Lot C. Clark , The New York Times, November 12, 1880.

Web links

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

• Clark lot in the database from Find a Grave (English)