Frank Monroe Clark was a Democratic

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 member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Pennsylvania

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Early Life & Military Service

Frank Clark was born in Bessemer, Pennsylvania. He attended the Pittsburgh Institute of Aeronautics

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, and enlisted in the United States Army Air Corps

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 in 1942, serving in Europe

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 as a flight officer

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 until discharged in 1945. Clark later became a major in the Air Force Reserve.

Public service

While still in the service, Clark was appointed as the chief of police of Bessemer, serving in that capacity until November 1954.

He was an unsuccessful candidate for election to Congress in 1952

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. He was elected as a Democrat in 1954 to the 84th United States Congress

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, defeating incumbent Republican Congressman Louis E. Graham

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, and was re-elected to the nine succeeding Congresses, serving until his resignation on December 31, 1974 following his defeat in the 1974

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 election to Republican Gary A. Myers

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. He was unsuccessful seeking re-election in 1976

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, 1978, and 1990.

He was a delegate to a number of conferences, including:

• the North Atlantic Treaty Organization Conference 1956–1974
• the Inter-Parliamentary Union Conference in Germany
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   in 1957
• the Christian Leadership for Peace Conference at The Hague
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   in 1958
• the International Roads Conference in 1959 and 1962–1968.

He died in New Castle, Pennsylvania

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