Clark was the representative for Kentucky’s 3rd congressional district and was a Republican. He served from 1829 to 1831.
He was previously the representative for Kentucky’s 3rd congressional district as an Adams from 1827 to 1829; the representative for Kentucky’s 3rd congressional district as an Adams from 1825 to 1827; the representative for Kentucky’s 1st congressional district as a Republican from 1815 to 1817; and the representative for Kentucky’s 1st congressional district as a Republican from 1813 to 1815.
Voting Record
Missed Votes
From May 1813 to Mar 1831, Clark missed 283 of 1,041 roll call votes, which is 27.2%. This is worse than the median of 14.6% among the lifetime records of representatives serving in Mar 1831. The chart below reports missed votes over time.
We don’t track why legislators miss votes, but it’s often due to medical absenses, major life events, and running for higher office.
Primary Sources
The information on this page is originally sourced from a variety of materials, including:
- unitedstates/congress-legislators, a community project gathering congressional information
- United States Congressional Roll Call Voting Records, 1789-1990 by Howard L. Rosenthal and Keith T. Poole.
- Martis’s “The Historical Atlas of Political Parties in the United States Congress”, via Keith Poole’s roll call votes data set, for political party affiliation for Members of Congress from 1789 through about year 2000
