Wikipedia:WikiProject Military history/Assessment/John Bullock Clark/archive1

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John Bullock Clark
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Clark beats out James S. Rains as my least favorite figure to have written a bio on. A lawyer by trade, Clark entered politics, where he was probably involved in a plot to distribute fake ballots to his own advantage. A significant militia leader in the incident where the state of Missouri declared war on a religious group, Clark was serving in the US House of Representatives in 1861 when civil war broke out. After leading armed troops in action against the United States army while a sitting congressman, Clark was expelled from the US House, before working his way into a role as a senator for the Confederate government of Missouri, which was an administrative fiction after 1862. At the end of his term, he was not renominated due to his behavior in office resembling a Hank Jr. song. Clark's career ended with the highs and lows of winning a CS house election in which none of the voters were actively living in the district, fleeing to Mexico, being arrested, and one last political nomination resulting in his son getting the office instead. Hog Farm Talk 00:35, 5 August 2023 (UTC)

- with this nomination having no activity so far, and with me anticipating scaling down my wikipedia involvement, I think it's best to go ahead and close this one as withdrawn. Hog Farm Talk 23:29, 4 September 2023 (UTC)