Ambrose Williams Clark

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MediumOil on academy board

DimensionsSight: 13 3/4 × 10 1/4 in. (34.9 × 26 cm)

Object numberN0010.1983(01)

Credit LineCollection of the Fenimore Art Museum. Bequest of Irene Kellogg

Photograph by Richard Walker

Label TextAmbrose Williams Clark (1810-1887) was a U.S. Representative from New York during the Civil War. Born in Cooperstown he attended public schools and trained as a printer, becoming active in the Newspaper business as an advocate of Whig Party politics, he was the publisher of the Otsego Journal from 1831 to 1836. He was elected as a republican to the thirty-seventh and thirty-eighth Congresses (1861-1865). In 1865 he was appointed consul at Valparaiso Chile by President Lincoln and served until 1869.

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