Benjamin S. W. Clark (May 27, 1829 Franklin County, New York - October 19, 1912) was an American merchant and politician from New York.
Life
He was the son of Samuel Smith Clark (1801-1870, Franklin County Clerk 1832-1834, son of Hon. Benjamin Clark who was First Judge of the Franklin County Court 1825-1829) and Jane Ann Clark (1806-1872).
He was for a long time Cashier of the Farmers National Bank of Malone. He was Franklin County Treasurer from 1858 to 1860, and later Clerk of the Board of Supervisors of Franklin County.
In March 1876, he was appointed by Governor Samuel J. Tilden an Inspector of State Prisons to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Moss K. Platt. Afterwards he was appointed Warden of Sing Sing State Prison.
He was the first Superintendent of Public Works under the state constitutional amendment of 1876, appointed after a year-long struggle between Governor Lucius Robinson and a hostile New York State Senate which had rejected the appointment of Robinson's first three nominees, George B. McClellan, Charles S. Fairchild and Daniel Magone.
Afterwards he was a New York State Bank Examiner.
He was buried at the Morningside Cemetery in Malone, NY.
Sources
- STATE LEGISLATIVE WORK.; ...BENJAMIN S.W. CLARK NOMINATED FOR THE PLACE IMMEDIATELY AFTER MAGONE'S REJECTION in NYT on January 24, 1878
- STATE AFFAIRS AT ALBANY.; CLARK'S NOMINATION CONFIRMED in NYT on January 31, 1878
- [1] Gravestone transcriptions, at RootsWeb
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| Preceded by Christopher A. Walrath Darius A. Ogden as Canal Commissioners |
Superintendent of Public Works 1878 - 1880 |
Succeeded by Silas B. Dutcher |
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