Address by Mr. John Young Brown, of Kentucky.-. Mr. Bertrand H. Snell, of New York.. Mr. Charles D. Millard, of New York.. Mr. Daniel A. Reed, of New York........ Mr. James L. Whitley, of New York. Mr. James M. Mead, of New York.. Mr. Francis D. Culkin, of New York. Mr. Samuel Dickstein, of New York.. Mr. Fred J. Sisson, of New York.. Mr. Frank Crowther, of New York.... 59 Biography JOHN DAVENPORT CLARKE was born in Hobart, Delaware County, N. Y., January 15, 1873; attended the common schools, and was graduated from Lafayette College, Easton, Pa., in 1898; took postgraduate courses in economics and history in Colorado College at Colorado Springs; studied law in the New York Law School, and was graduated from the Brooklyn Law School in 1911; was admitted to the bar in 1912 and commenced practice in New York City; engaged in work with the mining department of the Carnegie Steel Co.; assistant to the secretary of mines of the United States Steel Corporation 1901-7; secretary and treasurer of other mining interests; moved to Delaware County in 1915 and engaged in agricultural pursuits; elected as a Republican to the Sixty-seventh and Sixty-eighth Congresses (Mar. 4, 1921-Mar. 3, 1925); unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1924 to the Sixty-ninth Congress; resumed agricultural pursuits, and resided in Fraser, Delaware County, N.Y.; elected to the Seventieth, Seventy-first, Seventy-second, and Seventy-third Congresses, and served from March 4, 1927, until his death; delegate to the Republican National Conventions in 1928 and 1932; died in an automobile accident near Delhi, Delaware County, N.Y., November 5, 1933; interment in Locust Hill Cemetery, Hobart, N.Y. |