Ambrose W. Clark

Who was Ambrose W. Clark?

Ambrose Williams Clark was a U.S. Representative from New York during the American Civil War.

Born near Cooperstown, New York, Clark attended the public schools. He was publisher of the Otsego Journal 1831–1836, of the Northern Journal in Lewis County 1836–1844, and of the Northern New York Journal at Watertown 1844–1860. He served as Surrogate for five years.

Clark was elected as a Republican to the Thirty-seventh and Thirty-eighth Congresses. He was appointed consul at Valparaíso, Chile by President Lincoln and served from 1865 to 1869. He acted as Chargé d'affaires in Chile in the absence of the Minister in 1869. He died in Watertown, New York, October 13, 1887. He was interred in Brookside Cemetery.