Katherine Clark
| Katherine Clark | |
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| Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Massachusetts's 5th district |
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Assumed office December 10, 2013 |
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| Preceded by | Ed Markey |
| Member of the Massachusetts Senate from the 5th Middlesex district |
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In office January 5, 2011 – December 10, 2013 |
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| Preceded by | Richard Tisei |
| Succeeded by | Jason Lewis |
| Member of the Massachusetts House of Representatives from the 32nd Middlesex district | |
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In office March 13, 2008 – January 5, 2011 |
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| Preceded by | Mike Festa |
| Succeeded by | Paul Brodeur |
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Katherine Marlea Clark July 17, 1963 New Haven, Connecticut |
| Political party | Democratic |
| Spouse(s) | Rodney S. Dowell |
| Children | 3 |
| Residence | Melrose, Massachusetts |
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| Profession | Lawyer |
| Religion | Protestant |
| Website | katherineclark |
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| 113th Congress (2013–15) |
Katherine Marlea Clark (born July 17, 1963) is an American politician who has served as the United States Representative for Massachusetts's 5th congressional district since 2013. The district includes many of the northern and western suburbs of Boston, such as Medford, Framingham, Woburn and Clark's hometown of Melrose. She is a member of the Democratic Party. She was a member of the Massachusetts House of Representatives from 2008 to 2011, and a member of the Massachusetts Senate from 2011 to 2013.
Born in Connecticut, Clark worked as an attorney in several states before moving to Massachusetts in 1995, where she worked in state government. She joined the Melrose School Committee in 2002, becoming committee chair in 2005. She was first elected to the state legislature in 2007, and contributed to legislation regarding criminal justice, education, and municipal pensions. She won the 2013 special election for the U.S. House of Representatives to succeed Ed Markey in the 5th district and sits on the House Natural Resources Committee.
Katherine Marlea Clark was born July 17, 1963 in New Haven, Connecticut. She attended St. Lawrence University, Cornell Law School, and the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University. She studied in Nagoya, Japan in 1983.
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