CSA Congressman. He received a place in the State of Georgia's history by serving as a Democrat in the Georgia State House of Representatives in 1841, and during the American Civil War, he was a representative from Georgia in the Confederate Congress from 1862 to 1864, but was not re-elected. Born the son of John and Sarah Clark, he attended Covington Manual Labor School before becoming a lawyer. On April 23, 1846, he married Temperance Boddie Conyers, the daughter of Dr. W.A. Conyers, a banker. The town of Conyers in Newton County, Georgia was named in honor of his wife's father. The couple had three daughters and a son; none of his daughters married. In 1858 he and Jefferson Lamar became partners in a law firm, and he was considered a knowledgeable trial attorney that the community respected. While in the Georgia State House of Representatives, he supported a bill that perishable food would not be taxed. From 1862 to 1864 while serving in the Confederate Congress, he was a member of House Post Offices and Post Roads Committee and the House Quartermaster's and Commissary Department Committee. In 1862 he served as a member of House War Tax Committee. He also supported a bill that overseers of plantations, artisan, and mechanics would be excluded from the draft and attempted to safeguard the home front's productive capacity. He owned the Clark Grove Plantation and purchase the abandoned Covington Manual Labor School as well as land in Texas. After the war, he was partners with two men in a mercantile business. In 1869 he was Trustee of Southern Masonic Female College in Covington. Like his father-in-law, the banker, he was known to loan money for interest. From 1873 to 1878, he was the Director of Georgia Railroad and Banking Company. When his health declined, he went to Baltimore, Maryland seeking treatment and died there.