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History and Government—Congressional Biographies—MissouriJohn Bullock CLARK
(1802-1885)
CLARK, John Bullock,
(father of John Bullock Clark, Jr., and nephew of Christopher
Henderson Clark and James Clark), a Representative from Missouri;
born in Madison County, Ky., April 17, 1802; attended the country
schools; studied law; was admitted to the bar in 1824 and practiced
in Fayette, Mo.; clerk of the Howard County courts 1824-1834;
colonel of Missouri Mounted Volunteers in the Black Hawk War in
1832; major general of militia in 1848; member of the State house
of representatives 1850 and 1851; elected as a Democrat to the
Thirty-fifth Congress to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation
of James S. Green; reelected to the Thirty-sixth and Thirty-seventh
Congresses and served from December 7, 1857, until July 13, 1861,
when he was expelled for having taken up arms against the union; a
Senator from Missouri in the First Confederate Congress and a
Representative in the Second Confederate Congress; brigadier
general of Missouri Confederate State troops; practiced law until
his death in Fayette, Howard County, Mo., October 29, 1885;
interment in Fayette Cemetery.
Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1771-Present
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