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| | Abraham Clark |
 | | CLARK, Abraham, signer of the Declaration of Independence, born in Elizabethtown, New Jersey, 15 February, 1726: died in Rahway, 15 September, 1794. |
 | | An act to regulate practice in the courts of law in that colony became known as "Clark's law," and a strong spirit of enmity was manifested by the members of the bar against the supposed framer of it. |
 | | Clark's resolution was carried by a considerable majority in the house, but was lost in the senate by the casting vote of John Adams, the vice-president. |
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