J. Bayard Clark
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{G1} Jerome Bayard Clark (April 5, 1882 - August 26, 1959) was a U.S. Representative from North Carolina.
Born on Phoebus Plantation near Elizabethtown, North Carolina, Clark attended the public schools, Davidson (North Carolina) College, and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He studied law. He was admitted to the bar in 1906 and commenced practice in Elizabethtown, North Carolina. He served as president of the Bank of Elizabethtown 1910-1922. He served in the State house of representatives in 1915. He moved to Fayetteville, North Carolina, in 1920 and continued the practice of law. He served as member of the State Democratic committee 1909-1919. He served as member of the North Carolina State Judicial Conference 1924-1928.
Clark was elected as a Democrat to the Seventy-first and to the nine succeeding Congresses (March 4, 1929-January 3, 1949). He served as chairman of the Committee on Elections No. 1 (Seventy-second and Seventy-third Congresses). He was not a candidate for renomination in 1948. He resumed the practice of law. He died in Fayetteville, North Carolina, August 26, 1959. He was interred in Cross Creek Cemetery No. 3.
