William Clark | |
Image Name: | WilliamClarkPA.jpg |
Birth Date: | 18 February 1774 |
Birth Place: | Dauphin, Province of Pennsylvania, British America |
Death Place: | Dauphin, Pennsylvania, U.S. |
State: | Pennsylvania |
District: | 10th |
Term Start: | March 4, 1833 |
Term End: | March 4, 1837 |
Preceded: | Adam King |
Succeeded: | Luther Reily |
Order2: | 4th |
Office2: | Treasurer of the United States |
President2: | John Quincy Adams Andrew Jackson |
Term Start2: | June 4, 1828 |
Term End2: | November 1829 |
Preceded2: | Thomas Tudor Tucker |
Succeeded2: | John Campbell |
Party: | Anti-Masonic |
Resting Place: | English Presbyterian Cemetery |
Caption: | Portrait of William Clark, US Representative from Pennsylvania |
Children: | James |
William Clark (February 18, 1774March 28, 1851) was a farmer, jurist, and politician from Dauphin, Pennsylvania.[1]
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 from June 4, 1828[2] to November 1829.[1]
Clark was elected as an Anti-Masonic candidate to the Twenty-third and Twenty-fourth Congresses.[1] 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.