William Clark (February 18, 1774March 28, 1851) was a farmer, jurist, and politician from

Dauphin, Pennsylvania Dauphin is a borough in Dauphin County, Pennsylvania, United States. The population was 796 at the 2020 census. Dauphin's ZIP code is 17018. It is part of the Harrisburg–Carlisle Metropolitan Statistical Area. Geography Dauphin is located ...

. Herringshaw, Thomas William, ed. ''Herringshaw's National Library of American Biography.'' Chicago: American Publisher's Association, 1909. 633.

Biography

He served as secretary of the Pennsylvania land office from 1818 to 1821, and State treasurer from 1821 to 1827. He was

Treasurer of the United States The treasurer of the United States is an officer in the United States Department of the Treasury who serves as custodian and trustee of the federal government's collateral assets and the supervisor of the department's currency and coinage produc ...

from June 4, 1828Kelker, Luther Reily. ''History of Dauphin County, Pennsylvania.'' New York: Lewis Publishing Company, 1907. 504. to November 1829. Clark was elected as an Anti-Masonic candidate to the Twenty-third and Twenty-fourth Congresses. He was a member of the State constitutional revision commission in 1837. After Congress, he engaged in agricultural pursuits and died near Dauphin in 1851. He was interred in English Presbyterian Cemetery.

External links

The Political Graveyard

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Clark, William 1774 births 1851 deaths People from Dauphin County, Pennsylvania Anti-Masonic Party members of the United States House of Representatives from Pennsylvania 19th-century American politicians Treasurers of the United States Pennsylvania state court judges People from Pennsylvania in the War of 1812