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History and Government—Congressional Biographies—KentuckyJames CLARK
(1779-1839)
CLARK, James, (brother of
Christopher Henderson Clark and uncle of John Bullock Clark), a
Representative from Kentucky; born near the Peaks of Otter in
Bedford County, Va., January 16, 1779; moved with his parents to
Clark County, Ky., in 1794; was educated by private tutors;
attended Pisgah Academy, Woodford County, Ky.; studied law; was
admitted to the bar and commenced practice in Winchester, Ky., in
1797; member of the State house of representatives in 1807 and
1808; appointed judge of the court of appeals in 1810; elected as a
Republican to the Thirteenth and Fourteenth Congresses and served
from March 4, 1813, until taking a leave of absence from the
Congress on April 8, 1816; resigned prior to August 1816; judge of
the circuit court 1817-1824; elected as an Adams candidate to the
Nineteenth Congress to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation
of Henry Clay; reelected to the Twentieth Congress; and elected as
an Anti-Jacksonian candidate to the Twenty-first Congresses and
served from August 1, 1825, to March 3, 1831; chairman, Committee
on Territories (Twenty-first Congress); member of the State senate
1831-1835; elected, as a Whig, Governor of Kentucky in 1836, and
served until his death in Frankfort, Ky., September 27, 1839;
interment in the private burial ground of the old Clark home at
Winchester, Clark County, Ky.
Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1771-Present
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