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Early Life & Military Service


Frank Clark was born in Bessemer, Pennsylvania . He attended the Pittsburgh Institute Of Aeronautics , and enlisted in the United States Army Air Corps in 1942, serving in Europe as a flight officer 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 . He was elected as a Democrat in 1954 to the 84th United States Congress and to the nine succeeding Congresses and serving until his resignation on December 31, 1974. He was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1974 , 1976 , 1978 , and 1990 .

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

He died in New Castle, Pennsylvania .


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  State Pennsylvania
  District 25
  Before Louis E Graham
  After Gary A Myers
  Years 19551974