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Name | Frank Clark |
Address | Gainesville, Florida , United States |
Email | None |
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March 28, 1860
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Died | April 14, 1936
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Contributor | eddy 9_99 |
Last Modifed | Mr. Matt Mar 28, 2021 08:30am |
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Info | born in Eufaula, Barbour County, Ala., March 28, 1860; attended the common schools of Alabama and Georgia; studied law; was admitted to the bar in 1881 and commenced practice in Newnan, Coweta County, Ga.; moved to Florida in 1884 and settled in Polk County; city attorney of Bartow, Fla., in 1885 and 1886
FL State house of representatives 1889-1891 and in 1899
Assistant United States attorney in 1893; United States attorney for the southern district of Florida 1894-1897; moved to Jacksonville in 1895 and continued the practice of law; chairman of the Democratic State committee in 1900; delegate to the Democratic National Convention in 1920
US House (D-FL) 1905-1925; chairman, Committee on Public Buildings and Grounds (Sixty-third through Sixty-fifth Congresses); unsuccessful candidate for renomination in 1924
Resumed the practice of law in Miami, Fla.; appointed by President Coolidge as a Democratic member of the United States Tariff Commission, serving from April 12, 1928, to September 16, 1930; resumed the practice of law in Washington, D.C.; served as attorney for the Bureau of Internal Revenue, Treasury Department, from November 16, 1933, until his death in Washington, D.C., April 14, 1936; interment in Wildwood Cemetery, Bartow, Fla.
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