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History and Government—Congressional Biographies—MissouriJohn Bullock CLARK, Jr.
(1831-1903)
CLARK, John Bullock, Jr.,
(son of John Bullock Clark), a Representative from Missouri; born
in Fayette, Howard County, Mo., January 14, 1831; attended Fayette
Academy, and the University of Missouri at Columbia; spent two
years in California for travel and adventure; returned to the East,
and was graduated from the law department of Harvard University in
1854; was admitted to the bar and practiced in Fayette, Mo., from
1855 until the commencement of the Civil War, when he entered the
Confederate Army as a lieutenant; promoted successively to the rank
of captain, major, colonel, and brigadier general; resumed the
practice of law in Fayette, Mo.; elected as a Democrat to the
Forty-third and to the four succeeding Congresses (March 4,
1873-March 3, 1883); chairman, Committee on the Post Office and
Post Roads (Forty-fourth Congress); unsuccessful candidate for
renomination in 1882; clerk of the House of Representatives
1883-1889; engaged in the practice of law in Washington, D.C.,
until his death there, September 7, 1903; interment in Rock Creek
Cemetery.
Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1771-Present
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