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History and Government—Congressional Biographies—New JerseyAbraham CLARK
(1726-1794)
CLARK, Abraham, a Delegate
and a Representative from New Jersey; born near Elizabethtown (now
Elizabeth), N.J., February 15, 1726; attended private schools;
studied law but never practiced; sheriff of Essex County; member of
the New Jersey provincial congress from May 23, 1775, to June 22,
1776, and was appointed assistant secretary October 9, 1775; Member
of the Continental Congress 1776-1778, 1780-1783 and 1786-1788; a
signer of the Declaration of Independence; delegate to the State
conventions of 1786 and 1787; member of the State general assembly
in 1776 and 1783-1785; member of the legislative council in 1778;
elected as a Pro-Administration candidate to the Second and Third
Congresses and served from March 4, 1791, until his death in
Rahway, N.J., on September 15, 1794; interment in Rahway
Cemetery.
Bibliography
Bogin, Ruth. Abraham Clark and the Quest for Equality in the
Revolutionary Era, 1774-1794. Rutherford, N.J.: Fairleigh
Dickinson University Press, 1982.
Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1771-Present
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