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Clarke, Isaac A

soldier, educator, was born March 22, 1837, in Overton county, Tenn. During the war he served as a quartermaster, with the rank of captain, in the confederate army. He was one of the founders of Clarke's academy of Berryville, Ark.; has been county examiner; and is prominent in educational affairs in the state of Arkansas.

Clarke, Isaac Edwards

lawyer, author, was born in 1830 in Massachusetts.

He has been a lawyer in the United States civil service since 1871; and is the author of Tribute to Bayard Taylor; and Industrial and High Art Education in the United States.

Clarke, James

journalist, governor, was born in 1806 in Westmoreland, Pa.

He conducted the Territorial, now State Gazette of Burlington, Iowa, during 1837- 39; was appointed secretary of the territory; and from 1843 to 1845 resumed the Gazette. He was governor of the territory in 1846; and again edited the Gazette from 1848 until his death. He died July 28, 1850, in Burlington, Iowa.

Clarke, James C

railroad president, was born in 1824 in Montgomery county, Md. Since 1895 he has been president of the Mobile and Ohio railroads.

Clarke, John

governor. He was governor of Delaware in 1816 and 1817.

He died in August, 1821, in Smyrna, Del.

Clarke, John

physician, author, and one of the founders of Rhode Island, was born Oct. 8, 1609, in England. He died April 20, 1676, in Newport, R. I.

Clarke, John

soldier, governor, was born in 1766. He fought under his father, General Elijah Clarke, in the revolutionary army. At the siege of Augusta and at the battle of Jack's Creek, in 1787, he greatly distinguished himself, and attained the rank of major-general of the state militia. He was governor of Georgia from 1819 to 1823. He died Oct. 15, 1832, in West Florida.

Clarke, John B

lawyer, congressman, was born April 14, 1833, near Augusta, Ky. He was elected county attorney in 1858, and served four years; and was elected to the state senate of Kentucky in 1867, and served four years. He was elected a representative from Kentucky to the forty-fourth and forty-fifth congresses as a democrat.

Clarke, John C

congressman, was born in 1793, in Connecticut. He served in the assembly of New York in 1826; and was a representative in congress from that state from 1827 to 1829, and again from 1837 to 1843. In 1849 he was appointed first auditor of the treasury. He died in 1852.

Clarke, John H

lawyer, United States senator, was born in 1791 in Elizabethtown, N. J. He served in the state legislature; and was a senator in congress from Rhode Island, from 1847 to 1853.

Clarke, John Sleeker

actor, was born Sept. 3, 1833, in Baltimore, Md. His professional debut was made as Frank Hardy in Paul Pry at the Howard Athenæum of Boston when he was eighteen years of age. In 1867 he went to reside in London, England. He played Toodles, which is perhaps his finest creation, for two hundred nights without interruption when it was first introduced at the Strand theater, London.

Clarke, John T

jurist, state senator, was born Jan. 12, 1834, in Putnam county, Ga. He served as judge of the superior courts of the Pataula circuit in Georgia; and in 1878 was a member of the Georgia state senate.