J. Bayard Clark

J. Bayard Clark

Jerome Bayard Clark (April 5, 1882 - August 26, 1959) was a U.S. Representative from North Carolina.

Early life

Born on Phoebus Plantation near Elizabethtown, North Carolina, Clark attended Davidson College, and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill where he studied law. Clark was admitted to the bar in 1906 and commenced practice in Elizabethtown, North Carolina. From 1910-1920 Clark served as president of the Bank of Elizabethtown. Clark served in the State house of representatives in 1915.

Clark then moved to Fayetteville, North Carolina, in 1920 and continued the practice of law serving as member of the State Democratic committee 1909-1919 and, later, as member of the North Carolina State Judicial Conference 1924-1928.

US Congress

Clark was elected as a Democrat to the Seventy-first and to the nine succeeding Congresses (March 4, 1929-January 3, 1949). Clark served as chairman of the Committee on Elections No. 1 (Seventy-second and Seventy-third Congresses).

Clark was not a candidate for renomination in 1948 and he resumed the practice of law.Clark died in Fayetteville, North Carolina, August 26, 1959 and is interred in Cross Creek Cemetery No. 3.

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