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Ambrose Williams Clark (February 19, 1810 – October 13, 1887) was a U.S. Representative from New York during the American Civil War. ==Biography== Born near Cooperstown, New York, Clark attended the public schools, was trained as a printer, and became active in the newspaper business as an advocate of Whig Party politics. He was publisher of the ''Otsego'' ''Journal'' from 1831 to 1836, the ''Northern Journal'' in Lewis County from 1836 to 1844, and the ''Northern New York Journal'' in Watertown from 1844 to 1860. Clark became a Republican when the party was founded in the mid-1850s. In 1859 and 1860 he served as Watertown's Town Supervisor and a member of the Jefferson County Board of Supervisors.〔John A. Haddock, (The Growth of a Century: as Illustrated in the History of Jefferson County, New York ), 1894, page 338〕 He was elected as a to the Thirty-seventh and Thirty-eighth Congresses (March 4, 1861 – March 4, 1865). He was appointed consul at Valparaíso, Chile by President Lincoln and served from 1865 to 1869. He acted as Chargé d'affaires in Chile in the absence of the Minister in 1869. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Ambrose W. Clark」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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