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Clarke, Marian W. (Marian Williams), 1880-1953

Marian Williams Clarke (July 29, 1880 – April 8, 1953) was an American politician. A member of the Republican Party, she was elected to the United States House of Representatives from New York, serving from December 1933 to January 1935. She was the second woman elected to Congress from New York, after Ruth Baker Pratt.

Born Marian K. Williams in Standing Stone, Pennsylvania, her family moved west to Cheyenne, Wyoming in 1891. Marian Williams attended art school at the University of Nebraska and graduated with a BA from Colorado College in 1902. As an undergraduate at Colorado College, she enrolled in a public speaking class taught by John Clarke. With her strength as a writer, she worked three years as a reporter for a Colorado Springs newspaper following graduation. Marian Williams married Clarke in 1905, and the couple moved to New York City, where John worked for several mining companies before graduating from Brooklyn Law School in 1911. After earning his law degree, John Clarke worked in the mining department of the Carnegie Steel Corporation and for several other mining interests. In 1915 they moved to John Clarke’s native Delaware County, in upstate New York. He pursued a newfound interest in agriculture and forestry, operating “Arbor Hill,” a farm near Delhi, New York.

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