Representative Green T. Clark View All Years

HON. GREEN T. CLARK.

MR. SPEAKER—Your committee appointed to prepare and present suitable resolutions of respect to the life, character and public service of the Hon. Green T. Clark, late a member of the House in the Fifth, Sixth, Fifteenth and Sixteenth General Assemblies, beg leave to report the following:

Green T. Clark was born in White county, Tennessee, March 25, 1823. Moved with his parents to the State of Illinois in 1829 and to Lee county, Iowa, in 1834. In 1843 he moved from Lee county to Marion county, where he resided to the time of his death, November 20, 1908, aged eighty-five years, eight months and one day.

He was one of the first settlers of his county and like most of Iowa’s pioneers began his career with but little means other than that brave spirit and untiring energy that characterized the pioneer men and women of our state.

A farmer by occupation, he at the same time took a lively interest in public affairs. He was elected assessor of his township at the first election held in his county, served some fifteen years as justice of the peace, and was for a number of years a member of the county board of supervisors. He served four terms as a member of the House of Representatives in the Fifth, Sixth, Fifteenth and Sixteenth General Assemblies, and without seeking distinction as a legislator or political leader he discharged the duties of the office with honesty and fidelity to his constituents and to the public, and was at all times and under all circumstances an honest, sincere and faithful public servant.

He was an earnest, active member of the Methodist church, a Christian in the highest sense of the term, a man of unquestioned integrity, whose upright character and kindly heart won the esteem and affection of all who knew him.

His days were lengthened beyond four score years, and he left to his family that richest of all heritages, the example of an honest, sincere and noble life.

Resolved: That the foregoing memorial be entered upon the Journal of the House, and that an engrossed copy be presented to the bereaved family of the deceased.

GEO. W. CROZIER,

S. H. BAUMAN,

THOS. HICKENLOOPER,

Committee.