An 1838 cartoon, "How to Make the Mare Mayor Go", depicts Varian (exiting stage left) and Clark (on a stalled mare). The Jew (right) suggests it's money that makes the mayor go. Aaron Clark (October 16, 1787 - August 2, 1861) was the second popularly elected mayor of New York City, serving two one-year terms from 1837 to 1839. He was a member of the Whig Party, the only member of his party to ever serve as mayor of New York City. October 16 is the 289th day of the year (290th in leap years). ...
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Early life Clark was born in Worthington, Massachusetts. He grew up in Vermont, attended Union College in Schenectady, New York, and fought in the War of 1812. Worthington is a town located in Hampshire County, Massachusetts. ...
Official language(s) None[1] Capital Montpelier Largest city Burlington Area Ranked 45th - Total 9,620 sq mi (24,923 km²) - Width 80 miles (130 km) - Length 160 miles (260 km) - % water 3. ...
The architectural centerpiece of the Union campus, the Nott Memorial, is named after the colleges president from 1804-1866, Eliphalet Nott. ...
Union Colleges Nott Memorial, one of the most recognized buildings in Schenectady Schenectady (IPA ) is a city in Schenectady County, New York, United States, of which it is the county seat. ...
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Political career After the war, Clark moved to New York City, where he worked in banking, ran a lottery, and became involved in local politics. He served as alderman, a powerful position in the charged political climate of the city. He was elected mayor in 1837 and 1838 for one year terms, and defeated in 1839. He thus became the only Whig to be elected mayor of the strongly Democratic New York City. Nickname: Big Apple, Gotham, NYC Location in the state of New York Coordinates: Country United States State New York Boroughs The Bronx Brooklyn Manhattan Queens Staten Island Settled 1613 - Mayor Michael Bloomberg (R) Area - City 1,214. ...
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A lottery is a popular form of gambling which involves the drawing of lots for a prize. ...
Election of 1837 The main event of that year was the financial Panic of 1837, in which the economy collapsed following several years of boom. New York real estate values plummeted. Many were unemployed, some were homeless. There was widespread dissatisfaction among the working and middle class residents. 1840 Whig campaign poster blames Van Buren for hard times The Panic of 1837 was an economic depression, one of the most severe financial crises in the history of the United States. ...
In economics, the term boom and bust refers to the movement of an economy through economic cycles due to changes in aggregate demand. ...
Despite the plight of the people, Alderman Clark did not focus on poverty relief, proposing instead that shipping piers be built at public expense around the waterfront so as to "raise the price of every lot 5 x 100 feet west of Broadway $5,000 at a jump."[1] This proposal was quite in line with the perception of the Whigs as the "party of the rich".
1837 also saw the rise of the "Equal Rights Party", which came to be known as the Locofocos. The Locofocos were a splitoff from the Democrats established in 1935, and stood for laissez-faire, against monopoly, and against the consolidation of money and power. In 1837 the Locofocos fielded Moses Jacques, Tammany Hall Democrats nominated John J. Morgan, and Clark was the Whig candidate. The fledgling faction was popular enough to split the Democratic vote, propelling the Whigs to victory in both the executive and legislative branches. The vote tallies were 16,140 for Clark, 12,974 for Morgan, and 3,911 for Jacques. The election led to much soul-searching in Tammany Hall, and forced the main Democratic faction to take the Locofocos' concerns seriously. The Locofocos were a radical faction of the Democratic Party that existed from 1835 until the mid-1840s. ...
Laissez-faire is short for laissez faire, laissez passer, a French phrase meaning to let things alone, let them pass. First used by the eighteenth century Physiocrats as an injunction against government interference with trade, it is now used as a synonym for strict free market economics. ...
In economics, a monopoly (from the Latin word monopolium - Greek language monos, one + polein, to sell) is defined as a persistent market situation where there is only one provider of a product or service. ...
Tammany Hall was the Democratic Party political machine that played a major role in New York City politics from the 1790s to the 1960s. ...
Election of 1838 After his Clark's first term, the privations of the depression combined with the pro-landowner policies of the Whig administration have made Clark profoundly unpopular among the poor majority. In the 1938 the newly-reconciled Democrats fielded Tammany Hall leader Isaac Varian. Nevertheless, they were not successful in unseating Clark: Varian received 19,411 votes to Clark's 19,930, a difference of only 1.3%.
It is probable (and was widely believed at the time) that the Whigs resorted to massive and blatant fraud in securing the election. In 1938 there was no voter registration law, and the elections were administered by Whig-appointed officials. Allegations included violent intimidation, multiple voting in different precincts, importation of "voters" from other jurisdictions, and other improprieties.
Election of 1839 1839 saw a Varian-Clark rematch, with massive electoral fraud being perpetrated this time by both parties. Varian won with 21,072 votes to Clark's 20,005. Following the election, a widespread outcry resulted in the passage of a voter registration bill during Varian's first term. The bill regularized electoral procedure in the city and served to decrease the incidence of fraud in future elections.
Later life Later, as mayor, Clark lived on Broadway near Leonard Street, a few short blocks north of the New York City Hall. There he attempted to gain the favor of society by giving frequent balls, which earned him the nickname "Dancing Mayor".[2] A view of Broadway in 1909 Broadway, as the name implies, is a wide avenue in New York City, and is the oldest north-south main thoroughfare in the city, dating to the first New Amsterdam settlement. ...
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A ball is a formal dance. ...
After ending his political career, Clark returned to business and became a patron of Hamilton College, which still awards an annual prized for oratory named in his honor. Clark endowed the prize with a gift in 1859, shortly before his death.[3] Hamilton College is a private, independent liberal arts college located in Clinton, New York. ...
Oratory is the art of eloquent speech. ...
Personal Clark married Catherine Maria Lamb in 1815. With her he had six children, five of whom lived past childhood. Catherine died in 1832, and Clark never remarried.
He died in Brooklyn, New York. Both he and his wife are buried in the Clark family crypt at the New York Marble Cemetery on Manhattan's Lower East Side. For other meanings, see Brooklyn (disambiguation). ...
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References - ^ Documents of the Board of Aldermen, 1836, #80, as cited in Myers, Ch. XII
- ^ New York's Great Industries: Exchange and Commercial Review, p. 62, Historical Publishing Company, New York (1885) (available from Google Books)
- ^ The Clark Prize homepage at Hamilton College
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