Marian Clarke (née Williams; July 29, 1880 – April 8, 1953) was a

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member of the

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from

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. She was the second woman elected to Congress from New York, after

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Biography

Clarke was born in Standing Stone, Pennsylvania. She attended the

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art school for a year, before she graduated from

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in 1902. She was elected to Congress in 1933 to fill the vacancy caused by the death of her husband John Davenport Clarke who had died in a car crash on November 5, 1933. She served from December 28, 1933, until January 3, 1935, withdrawing her nomination for reelection prior to the primary of 1934. She died in

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. She is interred at the Locust Hill Cemetery in

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