Samuel Clark (politician)

Samuel Clark (born January 1800 in Cayuga County , New York , †  October 2, 1870 in Kalamazoo , Michigan ) was an American politician . Between 1833 and 1835 he represented the state of New York and from 1853 to 1855 the state of Michigan in the US House of Representatives .

Career

Samuel Clark attended Hamilton College in Clinton . After studying law in Auburn and being admitted to the bar, he began working in his new profession in Waterloo in 1826 . Politically, Clark joined the later President Andrew Jackson and his Democratic Party .

In the congressional elections of 1832 he was elected to the US House of Representatives in Washington, DC in the 25th constituency of New York , where he succeeded Gamaliel H. Barstow on March 4, 1833 . Until March 3, 1835, he was able to complete a legislative period in Congress . This was shaped by the discussions about President Jackson's politics. It was about the controversial implementation of the Indian Removal Act , the nullification crisis with the state of South Carolina and the banking policy of the president.

In 1842, Samuel Clark moved to Kalamazoo, Michigan, where he practiced as a lawyer and also continued his political career. In 1850 he was a member of a convention to revise the Michigan Constitution. In the elections of 1852 he was re-elected to Congress in the third district of his state to succeed James L. Conger . Since he was defeated by the Republican David S. Walbridge in the elections of 1854 , he could only spend one term in the US House of Representatives between March 1853 and March 1855. This was determined by the discussions about slavery and other events leading up to the civil war .

After his final retirement from Congress, Clark became head of the land registry in the northeastern part of the Minnesota Territory in 1856 . After that he worked as a lawyer for some time; then he retired from this profession as well as from politics and devoted himself to agriculture. He died in Kalamazoo on October 2, 1870.

Web links

• Samuel Clark (politician) in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)
• Samuel Clark in the database of Find a Grave (English)