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History and Government—Congressional Biographies—MontanaWilliam Andrews CLARK
(1839-1925)
Senate Years of Service:
1899-1900; 1901-1907Party: Democrat; DemocratCLARK, William Andrews, a
Senator from Montana; born near Connellsville, Fayette County, Pa.,
January 8, 1839; attended the common schools and the Laurel Hill
Academy; in 1856 moved with his parents to Iowa, where he taught
school; while teaching, studied law at the Iowa Wesleyan University
at Mount Pleasant; worked in the quartz mines near Central City,
Gilpin County, Colo., in 1862; went to Montana in 1863 and settled
in Bannack, Beaverhead County, and engaged in placer mining for two
years; engaged in various mercantile pursuits in Blackfoot and
Helena and in banking at Deer Lodge; major of a battalion that
pursued Chief Joseph and his band of Nez Perce to the Bear Paw
Mountains of Montana in 1877; president of the State constitutional
convention in 1884 and of the second constitutional convention in
1889; elected as a Democrat to the United States Senate for the
term commencing March 4, 1899; took his seat December 4, 1899, and
vacated his seat on May 15, 1900, before a resolution declaring his
election void because of election fraud could be adopted; appointed
to fill the vacancy caused by his own resignation, but did not
qualify; again elected as a Democrat to the United States Senate in
1901, and served from March 4, 1901, to March 3, 1907; was not a
candidate for reelection; resumed his copper mining, banking, and
railroad interests; resident of New York City until his death there
on March 2, 1925; interment in Woodlawn Cemetery.
Bibliography
American National Biography; Dictionary of American
Biography; Foot, Forrest L. ‘The Senatorial Aspirations
of William A. Clark, 1898-1901: A Study In Montana Politics.’
Ph.D. dissertation, University of California, 1941; Mangam,
William. The Clarks, An American Phenomenon. New York:
Silver Bow Press, 1941.
Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1771-Present
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