J. E. Clark (California politician)

Not to be confused with the mayor of Portland, Oregon, Bud Clark.
J. E. Clark
Member of the California State Assembly
from the 7th district
In office
February 27, 1878 – January 5, 1880
Preceded byClarence W. Upton
Succeeded byMulti-member district
Personal details
Born1836 (1836)
England
PartyDemocratic (before 1878)
Workingmen's (1878–1880)
Greenback (after 1880)
OccupationCarpenter, politician

J. E. Clark (born 1836) was an English American carpenter and politician who served in the California State Assembly from 1878[1] to 1880.[2] He won a special election to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Assemblyman Clarence W. Upton,[3] making him the first member of the Workingmen's Party of California elected to the State Assembly, and the second ever elected to public office after John W. Bones.[4] He ran unsuccessfully for State Senate the following year.[5]

Clark served as president of the Workingmen's Club in Gilroy,[3] and belonged to the faction that supported affiliating with the Greenback-Labor Party.[6] In 1880, he was an unsuccessful candidate for presidential elector, pledged to Greenbacker James B. Weaver.[7] Clark later relocated to Humboldt County and was active in the party there, running once more for State Assembly unsuccessfully in 1884.[8] By 1886 he had re-established his carpentry business in Scottsville.[9]

References

  1. ^ "CALIFORNIA LEGISLATURE". The Daily Examiner. San Francisco. February 28, 1878. Retrieved November 5, 2025.
  2. ^ "J. E. Clark". JoinCalifornia. Retrieved November 5, 2025.
  3. ^ a b Parkinson, R. R. (1878). Pen Portraits; Autobiographies of State Officers, Legislators, Prominent Business and Professional Men of the Capital of the State of California; Also of Newspaper Proprietors, Editors, and Members of the Corps Reportorial. San Francisco: Alta California Print. p. 137. Retrieved November 5, 2025.
  4. ^ Kauer, Ralph (September 1944). "The Workingmen's Party of California". Pacific Historical Review. 13 (3): 282. Retrieved November 2, 2025.
  5. ^ "The Santa Clara W. P. C. County Convention". San Francisco Chronicle. San Francisco. May 31, 1879. Retrieved November 5, 2025.
  6. ^ "Meeting of Greenbackers in San Jose". The San Francisco Call. San Francisco. September 19, 1880. Retrieved November 5, 2025.
  7. ^ State and County Governments, 1881 Executive, Judicial, and Legislative Departments State of California. Sacramento, California: State Printing Office. p. 15. Retrieved June 18, 2024.
  8. ^ "The Greenback County Central Committee". The Times Weekly Telephone. Eureka. September 20, 1884. Retrieved November 5, 2025.
  9. ^ "J. E. Clark, Carpenter, Builder, and Undertaker". Daily Humboldt Standard. Eureka. June 21, 1886. Retrieved November 5, 2025.
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