John Bullock Clark

U. S. House of Representatives, Missouri, 1857-1861
Member, Provisional Confederate Congress, Missouri, 1861-1862
Confederate Senator, Missouri, 1862-1864
Confederate Representative, Missouri, 1864-1865

Born: April 17, 1802, Madison County, Kentucky.

• Attended the country schools.
  
• Studied law, was admitted to the bar, 1824, and practiced in Fayette, Missouri.
  
• Clerk of the Howard County, Missouri, Courts,1824-1834.
  
• Colonel of Missouri Mounted Volunteers in the Black Hawk War, 1832.
  
• Major General of Missouri Militia, 1848.
  
• Member of the Missouri State House of Representatives, 1850-1851.
  
• Elected from Missouri as a Democrat to the Thirty-fifth U. S. Congress to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of James S. Green.
  
• Re-elected from Missouri to the Thirty-sixth and Thirty-seventh U. S. Congresses, serving from December 7, 1857, until expelled July 13, 1861.
  
• Member of the Provisional Confederate Congress, 1861-1862.
  
• Senator from Missouri in the First Confederate Congress, 1862-1864.
  
• Representative from Missouri in the Second Confederate Congress, 1864-1865.
  
• Brigadier General of Missouri Confederate State troops, 1865.
  
• Practiced law until his death in 1885.

Died: October 29, 1885, Fayette, Howard County, Missouri.
Buried: Fayette Cemetery, Fayette, Missouri.

(Source: U.S. Congress. House. Biographical Directory Of The American Congress 1774-1949, 85th Cong., 2nd sess., H. Doc. 607 (Washington, D.C.: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1950), pp. 759-2057.)