Ambrose Williams Clark (February 19, 1810 – October 13, 1887) was a
U.S. Representative
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from
New York
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, serving 1861–1865.
Biography
Born near
Cooperstown, New York
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, 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
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and a member of the
Jefferson County Board of Supervisors.
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
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and served from 1865 to 1869. He acted as
Chargé d'affaires
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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
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Biography
Born in Watertown, Jefferson County, Bagley received an academic training, studied law, was admitted ...
.
[Hungerford Genealogical Services]
Marriages in the New York Reformer, 1850-1861
Volumes 1-3, 1996, page 85
References
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1810 births
1887 deaths
Town supervisors in New York (state)
New York (state) Whigs
People of New York (state) in the American Civil War
19th-century American diplomats
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Republican Party members of the United States House of Representatives from New York (state)
People from Cooperstown, New York
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