Robert Clark (12 June 1777-1 October 1837) was a member of the US House of Representatives (DR-NY 8) from 4 March 1819 to 3 March 1821, succeeding Dorrance Kirtland and preceding Richard McCarty. Born to a family of Scottish emigrants, he practiced law in Galway, New York before settling in Stamford and Delhi, serving in the State Assembly during the 1810s and in Congress from 1819 to 1821, and moving to Monroe, Michigan in 1823 before becoming a physician and farmer there. He later became a Whig, and he died in 1837.
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