William Clark (congressman)

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

William Clark was born in Dauphin, Pennsylvania. He was a captain of militia in Dauphin County in 1793 and 1795. He went to Crawford County, Pennsylvania, early in life, and was associate judge of Crawford County from 1803 to 1818. He was a brigade inspector of the western district of Pennsylvania from 1800 to 1817. He participated in the War of 1812, and was on board the flagship Lawrence in her first engagement with the British fleet on Lake Erie.

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, 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. He engaged in agricultural pursuits and died near Dauphin in 1851. Interment in English Presbyterian Cemetery.