William White Clark

William White Clark (born September 23, 1819 in Augusta , Georgia , † August 6, 1883 in Baltimore , Maryland ) was an American lawyer and Confederate politician .

Career

William White Clark was born near Augusta, Richmond County , about four and a half years after the end of the British-American War . He attended college, studied law, and was admitted to the bar. Clark was a wealthy plantation owner in Covington ( Newton County ). He also had a political career. In 1841 he was a member of the Georgia House of Representatives . The following decade was overshadowed by the Mexican-American War . The increasingly tense political mood of the period eventually led to the secession of the southern states , including Georgia, and the outbreak of civil war . In this regard, he was elected to the First Confederate Congress in November 1861 as a member of the Sixth Constituency of Georgia , where he served between 1862 and 1864. Clark died in Baltimore in 1883. His body was then transferred to Covington and buried in the city cemetery.

literature

• Yearns, Wilfred Buck: The Confederate Congress , University of Georgia Press, 2010, ISBN 9780820334769 , pp. 69, 110 and 238

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Auslandser , Mark: The Accidental Slaveowner: Revisiting a Myth of Race and Finding an American Family , University of Georgia Press, 2011, ISBN 9780820340425 , p. 47
2. ↑ The Confederate States almanac and repository of useful knowledge: for the year 1863 , Gale Cengage Learning, ISBN 9781432804930 , p. 33
3. ^ Lossing, Benson John: Pictorial History of the Civil War in the United States of America , Applewood Books, 2010, ISBN 9781429020329 , p. 463

Web links

• William White Clark in the database of Find a Grave (English)
• William White Clark on The Political Graveyard website