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 CLARENCE D. CLARK

, of Evanston, was born at Sandy Creek, Oswego County, N. Y., April 16, 1851; was educated in the common schools and at the Iowa State University; admitted to the bar in 1874 and taught school and practiced law in Delaware County, Iowa, until 1881; in that year removed to Evanston, Wyo., where he has since resided; was prosecuting attorney for Uinta County four years; was appointed associate justice of the Territory of Wyoming in 1890, but declined the office; upon the admission of Wyoming as a State was elected to the Fifty-First and Fifty-Second Congresses; was defeated for reëlection to the Fifty-Third Congress by a fusion of Democrats and Populists; was elected January 23, 1895, to the United States Senate for the term ending March 3, 1899, to fill the vacancy caused by the failure of the legislature to elect in 1892–93.