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Rush Clark
Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Iowa's 5th district
In office March 4, 1877 – April 29, 1879
Preceded by	James Wilson
Succeeded by	William G. Thompson
Member of the Iowa House of Representatives
In office 1860-1864
Personal details
Born	October 1, 1834 Schellsburg, Pennsylvania, US
Died	April 29, 1879(1879-04-29) (aged 44) Washington, D.C., US
Political party	Republican
Profession	Politician • Lawyer

Rush Clark (October 1, 1834 – April 29, 1879) was a nineteenth-century politician and lawyer from Iowa, who died on the floor of Congress in 1879.

Biography

Born in Schellsburg, Pennsylvania, Clark attended common schools and a local academy in Ligonier, Pennsylvania as a child. He graduated from Jefferson College in 1853, studied law and was admitted to the bar the same year, commencing practice in Iowa City, Iowa.

He was a member of the Iowa House of Representatives from 1860 to 1864, serving as Speaker of the House in 1863 and 1864, served on the staff of Governor Samuel J. Kirkwood in 1861 and 1862 and aided in the organization of volunteer regiments from Iowa during the Civil War. Clark was a trustee of the University of Iowa from 1862 to 1866, was again a member of the Iowa House of Representatives in 1876.

In 1876, he was elected as a Republican to represent Iowa's 5th congressional district in the United States House of Representatives. He was re-elected two years later. However, on April 29, 1879, near the beginning of the first session of his second term, he died suddenly on the floor of the House, reportedly suffering an attack of meningitis. He was interred in Oakland Cemetery in Iowa City.

Personal life

He married Eugenia Orr (died April 27, 1867), who was a teacher who died giving birth to daughter Eugenia Clark Pomeroy. A previous son, Eugene Rush Clark, had died during birth in 1865. Clark married again in a few years, and to this union, several more children were born, of which two lived.

See also

• List of United States Congress members who died in office (1790–1899)

References

1. "Representative Rush Clark". Iowa General Assembly. Retrieved May 7, 2024.
2. Obituary, "The Hon. Rush Clark," New York Times, 1879-04-29 at p. 4.

External links

• United States Congress. "Rush Clark (id: C000450)". Biographical Directory of the United States Congress.

• United States Congress. "Rush Clark (id: C000450)". Biographical Directory of the United States Congress.

v t e Members of the U.S. House of Representatives from Iowa
1st	W. Thompson Miller Henn A. Hall S. Curtis J. F. Wilson McCrary Stone McCoid B. Hall Gear Seerley Gear S. Clark Hedge Kennedy Kopp Eicher Martin Schwengel Schmidhauser Schwengel Mezvinsky Leach Nussle Braley Blum Finkenauer Hinson Miller-Meeks
2nd	Leffler L. Clark J. P. Cook Thorington Davis Vandever Price Smyth W. Wolf Cotton Tufts Price Farwell Murphy Hayes G. Curtis Lane Rumple Wade Dawson Pepper Vollmer Hull Letts B. Jacobsen W. Jacobsen Talle L. Wolf Bromwell Culver Blouin Tauke Nussle Leach Loebsack Miller-Meeks Hinson
3rd	Allison Donnan Ainsworth Burdick Updegraff Henderson Birdsall Pickett Connolly Sweet Robinson Willford Gwynne Gross Grassley Evans Nagle Lightfoot Boswell Latham Young Axne Nunn
4th	Grinnell Loughridge Walden Pratt Deering Weller Fuller Sweney Butler Updegraff Haugen Biermann Talle LeCompte Carter Kyl Bandstra Kyl N. Smith Ganske Latham King Feenstra
5th	Kasson G. Dodge Palmer J. Wilson R. Clark W. G. Thompson J. Wilson Frederick Kerr J. Hamilton Cousins Good Cole Thurston LeCompte Cunningham N. Smith Scherle Harkin Lightfoot Grandy Latham King
6th	A. Hubbard Pomeroy Orr Loughridge Sampson Weaver Cutts J. C. Cook Cutts J. C. Cook Weaver Lacey White Lacey D. Hamilton Kendall Kirkpatrick Ramseyer Dowell Utterback Dowell Goodwin Cunningham Gilchrist J. I. Dolliver Coad Hoeven Greigg Mayne Bedell Grandy
7th	Kasson Cummings E. Gillette Kasson H. Smith Conger Hays Hull Prouty Dowell Wearin Jensen Hansen Scherle
8th	McDill Sapp Hepburn Anderson Flick Hepburn Jamieson Towner Evans Thurston Gilchrist Hoeven
9th	Orr Oliver Carpenter Pusey Lyman Reed Bowman Hager McPherson W. Smith Green Vincent Swanson G. Gillette Harrington Narey
10th	Holmes J. P. Dolliver Conner Woods Dickinson Gilchrist
11th	Struble Perkins Thomas E. Hubbard Scott Steele Scott Boies Campbell
AL	Hastings Leffler
Terr	Chapman A. Dodge

v t e Speakers of the Iowa House of Representatives
Browne Bonham Temple Grant Noble McFarland Shelledy Edwards Clarke Butler Wright Russell Cotton Wilson Gear J. Y. Stone Alford Struble Wolf Head Redman Hamilton Mitchell H. Stone Byers Funk Bowen Eaton Clarke Kendall Feely Stillman Cunningham Atkinson Pitt McFarlane Anderson Edson Carter J. H. Johnson F. Johnson Miller Mitchell Foster Irwin Blue Burma Felton Kuester Lynes Hanson Mooty Lisle Nelson Naden Steffen Baringer Harbor Varley Cochran Millen Harbor Stromer Avenson Arnould Van Maanen Corbett Siegrist Rants Murphy Paulsen Upmeyer Grassley

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• People of Iowa in the American Civil War
• Speakers of the Iowa House of Representatives
• Union (American Civil War) political leaders
• Deaths from meningitis
• Republican Party members of the United States House of Representatives from Iowa
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• Neurological disease deaths in Washington, D.C.
• Infectious disease deaths in Washington, D.C.
• Republican Party members of the Iowa House of Representatives
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