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ABRAHAM CLARK

Abraham Clark was an American statesman. He was born in 1726 at New Jersey and died in 1794. He was a signer of the American Declaration of Independence. At the beginning of the American Revolution he was an active member of the New Jersey Committee of Safety. Later he was a member of the Continental Congress from June, 1776, until 1783, except in 1779, and also in 1787 and 1788; he was a member of the New Jersey Legislature from 1782 until 1787 and of the US Congress from 1791 until his death. He was chosen to the Constitutional Convention of 1787, but did not attend.
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