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Ambrose Williams Clark (February 19, 1810 – October 13, 1887) was a U.S. Representative from New York, serving 1861–1865.

For other people with the same name, see Ambrose Clark (disambiguation).

Ambrose William Clark
Member of the
U.S. House of Representatives
from New York
In office
March 4, 1863 – March 4, 1865
Preceded byRoscoe Conkling
Succeeded byAddison H. Laflin
Constituency20th district
In office
March 4, 1861 – March 4, 1863
Preceded byCharles B. Hoard
Succeeded byThomas Treadwell Davis
Constituency23rd district
Personal details
Born(1810-02-19)February 19, 1810
Cooperstown, New York, U.S.
DiedOctober 13, 1887(1887-10-13) (aged 77)
Watertown, New York, U.S.
Resting placeBrookside Cemetery, Watertown, New York, U.S.
Political partyRepublican

Biography


Born near Cooperstown, New York, Clark attended the public schools, was trained as a printer, and became active in the newspaper business as an advocate of Whig Party politics. He was publisher of the Otsego Journal from 1831 to 1836, the Northern Journal in Lewis County from 1836 to 1844, and the Northern New York Journal in Watertown from 1844 to 1860.

Clark became a Republican when the party was founded in the mid-1850s. In 1859 and 1860 he served as Watertown's Town Supervisor and a member of the Jefferson County Board of Supervisors.[1]

He was elected as a Republican to the Thirty-seventh and Thirty-eighth Congresses (March 4, 1861 – March 4, 1865).

He was appointed consul at Valparaíso, Chile by President Lincoln and served from 1865 to 1869. He acted as Chargé d'affaires in Chile in the absence of the Minister in 1869.


Death and burial


Clark died in Watertown, New York on October 13, 1887. He was interred in Watertown's Brookside Cemetery.


Family


Clark's daughter Paulina Sabina was the wife of George A. Bagley.[2][3]


References


  1. John A. Haddock, The Growth of a Century: as Illustrated in the History of Jefferson County, New York, 1894, page 338
  2. Joel Henry Monroe, Through Eleven Decades of History: Watertown, a History from 1800 to 1912, 1912, pages 148-150
  3. Hungerford Genealogical Services, Marriages in the New York Reformer, 1850-1861, Volumes 1-3, 1996, page 85


U.S. House of Representatives
Preceded by
Charles B. Hoard
 Member of the U.S. House of Representatives
from New York's 23rd congressional district
1861–1863		 Succeeded by
Thomas Treadwell Davis
Preceded by
Roscoe Conkling
 Member of the U.S. House of Representatives
from New York's 20th congressional district
1863–1865		 Succeeded by
Addison H. Laflin

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