Christopher Henderson Clark
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Christopher Henderson Clark (September 5, 1768– November 21, 1828 was an American lawyer and politician from Campbell County, Virginia. He represented Virginia in the U.S. House from 1804 until 1806.
Christopher was the son of Roberk Clark (1738-1810) and Susannah Henderson Clark (c.1742-1820) and was born in Bedford, Virginia. Clark attended Washington College (now Washington and Lee University) in Lexington. Then he read law with Patrick Henry was admitted to the bar in 1788, and served in Virginia's House of Delegates in 1790.
In 1804 a Virginia Congressman, John Johns Trigg, died in office and Clark was elected to complete that term. He was reelected to the Ninth Congress in his own right, and served in congress from November 5, 1804 until his resignation on July 1, 1806.
Clark returned to New London in Campbell County and the practice of law. When he died there in 1828 he was buried in a family graveyard.
