Alvah Augustus Clark was an American

United States

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 lawyer and Democratic Party

Democratic Party (United States)

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 politician who represented in the United States House of Representatives

United States House of Representatives

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 from 1877 to 1881. He was the first cousin of James N. Pidcock

James N. Pidcock

James Nelson Pidcock was an American Democratic Party politician who represented in the United States House of Representatives from 1885 to 1889. He was a cousin of Alvah A...

, who represented the same district from 1885 to 1889.

Born in Lebanon, New Jersey

Lebanon, New Jersey

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, Clark attended public and private schools as a child, studied law and was admitted to the bar in 1863, commencing practice in New Germantown, New Jersey. He was licensed as a counselor in 1867 and moved to Somerville, New Jersey

Somerville, New Jersey

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 later the same year where he continued to practice law.

Clark was elected as a Democrat to the Forty-fifth

45th United States Congress

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 and Forty-sixth

46th United States Congress

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 Congresses, serving in office from March 4, 1877-March 3, 1881, but was not a candidate for renomination in 1880.

After leaving Congress, Clark resumed practicing law, was appointed postmaster of Somerville, serving until 1899 and, once again, resumed practicing law until his death in Somerville on December 27, 1912. He was interred in New Somerville Cemetery

Somerville Cemetery, Somerville

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 in Somerville.

External links

• Alvah Augustus Clark at The Political Graveyard
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