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William Andrews Clark was born on January 08, 1839 in Connellsville, Pennsylvania, United States. His parents, John and Mary (Andrews) Clark, were of Scotch-Irish ancestry. His boyhood was spent on a farm. In 1856 the family moved to Iowa.
William entered an academy at Birmingham and later studied law at Iowa Wesleyan College. About 1870s he enrolled at School of Mines at Columbia University to study mining.
In 1856 Clark went to Missouri to teach school. Three years later, when civil war was devastating the state, he drove a team to Colorado and started to work in the gold quartz mines there. In 1863 he went to Bannack in what is now Montana, attracted by reports of rich discoveries of gold on Grasshoppei Creek. He soon joined a stampede to Horse Prairie Creek where he washed out $1, 500 in gold. With this for capital he shipped in a load of provisions from Salt Lake City and started a store at Virginia City. There was a heavy demand for tobacco in Montana, and the price was high. Clark went in search of a supply and at Boise City, Idaho, found it. He bought several thousand pounds and hauled the cargo to Last Chance Gulch (now Helena) where he sold it at a good profit.
In the fall of 1866 he went on horseback to the Pacific Coast and bought a large stock of goods which he took to a new store at the mining camp of Elk City. He had learned the trails, and the next year he obtained the contract for carrying the mails between Missoula and Walla Walla. This was a hazardous enterprise, as the route lay over rugged mountains and across the lands of hostile Indians, but Clark made a success of the undertaking. By this time he had become wealthy.
He entered into partnership with R. W. Donnell of New York and S. E. Larabie of Montana in banking and wholesale merchandise. The firm’s first bank was established at Deer Lodge in 1870 and another bank was started at Butte in 1877. In 1872 he bought the Original, Colusa, Mountain Chief, and Gambetta mining claims at Butte. Later he built the “Old Dexter” stamp mill, the first of its kind in Butte, then formed the Colorado and Montana Smelting Company, and built the first smelter in Butte. He established the huge Butte Reduction Works; he acquired the Elm Orlu, the greatest of the Butte mines; and he extended his mining interests to Arizona where he purchased the United Verde mine and its wonderful smelter. Other projects also claimed his attention. He built the San Pedro, Los Angeles & Salt Lake Railroad and sold it to the Union Pacific, of which company he became a director. He organized the Los Alamitos Sugar Company and built a large sugar factory near Los Angeles.
Clark early became active in Montana politics. His prestige as a miner made him a leader of the mining interests, but he found a rival in Marcus Daly, once his friend but eventually his implacable enemy. Both men were Democrats and both fought to control the Democratic party. This rivalry dominated the mining and political history of Montana during the 80’s and 90’s.
Clark began his political career as president of the constitutional convention of 1884 and presided with dignity and fairness. In 1888 he was nominated for delegate to Congress. Opposed by Thomas H. Carter, then unknown, he believed that he had the support of Marcus Daly, but when the returns came in, he was found to be defeated by about 5, 000 votes and where Daly’s influence was strong his defeat was overwhelming. In 1889 Clark again presided over a convention that was to frame a constitution for the new state; and again he presided with fairness, although there was complaint from the small number of farming members that the miners were running the convention in their own interests.
When the state was admitted, Clark was indorsed by the Democrats for United States senator. The legislative vote was close and both parties claimed the election. The United States Senate however seated the Republicans. In 1893 Clark was again a candidate for the Senate and now Daly was openly fighting him. It appears that both sides spent money lavishly. On the last day of the session Clark had six Republican votes but was three votes short of election, and amid cries of fraud from the Daly group the legislature adjourned and left the state with but one senator. The next episode in the feud was the fight over the state capital. Daly had been crowded out of Butte and had built Anaconda only a few miles away, desiring to make this city the capital. Clark was willing to further this ambition if Daly would support him for United States senator; but they could come to no agreement and Clark threw his support to Helena, which was eventually chosen.
In the legislature which met in 1899 the Democrats had a large majority, but neither Clark nor Daly controlled it. There was a deadlock for many days, and stories were rife of huge bribes offered for votes for Clark. One member dramatically produced $30, 000, which he said had been given him with which to purchase votes. The Daly men stood firm, but finally eleven Republicans voted for Clark, and he was declared elected. Petitions against seating him were presented to the United States Senate. Clark denied any fraud but admitted the expenditure of $140, 000 in the campaign. After an exhaustive investigation the Senate committee on elections reported unanimously, “That William A. Clark was not duly and legally elected to a seat in the Senate of the United States . ” Before action could be taken on this report Clark resigned. He was immediately appointed by Acting-Governor A. E. Spriggs to fill the unexpired term but did not present himself for the oath of office. In 1901 he was elected to the Senate without much opposition. When his term was over he quietly retired from the Senate.
In his palatial but much-ridiculed home in New York, popularly called “Clark’s Folly, ” he built up a notable art gallery. Along with some indifferent material, it contained a number of works by Titian, Van Dyck, Rembrandt, Franz Hals, and Rubens; a representative collection of the best work of the English school, with outstanding paintings by Reynolds, Hogarth, Gainsborough, and Raeburn; some of the finest products of the Barbizon School in France; and an especially fine Cazin collection. The gallery also held a small but fine group of sculpture, some rare Gobelins and Beauvais tapestries, and many specimens of antique lace, and rare rugs.
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Clark was a member of the Democratic Party. As senator he ably opposed the Roosevelt conservation policy, urging that the federal government turn over its forests to the states wherein they were located. He also opposed that provision of the Hepburn Act which prohibited railroads from carrying the coal produced in their mines. He was one of the leaders in defeating the bill to organize Arizona and New Mexico as one state.
Clark was a man of unusual and contradictory characteristics. Refined and even fastidious in manner, he could nevertheless deal with all classes of people. With intellectual and artistic dreams he was coldly practical in finance and politics. He was self-reliant and always formed his policies and directed their execution with little regard for the opinions of others.
In march 1869 Clark married Kate L. Stauffer from near his old home in Pennsylvania. His first wife died in 1893 and he married, on May 25, 1901, Anna E. La Chapelle, of Butte, Montreal.
