Zenas Clark (1795–1864) was an American politician from

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Life

In 1816, he co-founded the first newspaper in Potsdam, the ''Potsdam Gazette''. He was Supervisor of the Town of Potsdam from 1830 to 1834. He was a member of the

New York State Assembly The New York State Assembly is the lower house of the New York State Legislature, with the New York State Senate being the upper house. There are 150 seats in the Assembly. Assembly members serve two-year terms without term limits. The Assem ...

(St. Lawrence Co.) in

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and 1841. He was a member of the

New York State Senate The New York State Senate is the upper house of the New York State Legislature; the New York State Assembly is its lower house. Its members are elected to two-year terms; there are no term limits. There are 63 seats in the Senate. Partisan com ...

(15th D.) from 1854 to 1857, sitting in the 77th, 78th, 79th and

80th New York State Legislature The 80th New York State Legislature, consisting of the New York State Senate and the New York State Assembly, met from January 6 to April 18, 1857, during the first year of John A. King's governorship, in Albany. Background Under the provisi ...

s. He resigned his seat on February 13, 1857, due to ill health. He was buried at the Bayside Cemetery in Potsdam.

Sources

''The New York Civil List''
compiled by Franklin Benjamin Hough (pages 137, 139, 224f and 265; Weed, Parsons and Co., 1858)

transcribed from ''Our County and Its people: St. Lawrence County, New York'' by Gates Curtis (1894), at Ray's Place

External links

* {{DEFAULTSORT:Clark, Zenas 1795 births 1864 deaths Democratic Party members of the New York State Assembly Democratic Party New York (state) state senators People from Potsdam, New York 19th-century American newspaper editors 19th-century American politicians Journalists from New York (state)