John Clarke
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"John Clarke," White House Workers History Project, White House Historical Association, 2026, https://whha.whirlihost.com/Detail/workers/100.
- Position
- Unclear from Context Unclear from Context
- Years in President's House
- circa 1795
- Legal Status
- Free Person
- Gender
- Male
- Race/Ethnicity
- Unclear from Context
- Presidency
- George Washington
- Biography
- Information about Clarke’s life outside the White House remains unknown.1 John Clarke briefly worked for George Washington at the President’s House in Philadelphia. He appeared in one household record in April 1795, earning $27.40 “for sundry jo’bs pr bill” or miscellaneous tasks. There are no further entries for Clarke.2 Information about Clarke’s life outside the White House remains unknown.
- There are too many individuals named John Clarke to correctly determine which individual worked at the President’s House without additional information.
- “Washington’s Household Account Book, 1793-1797, (continued),” The Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography, 1906, Vol. 30, No 4, 474, https://www-jstor-org.mutex.gmu.edu/stable/pdf/20085359.pdf?refreqid=fastly-default:b1a31e013816c6edfc275a2744ab46c1&ab_segments=0/spellcheck_basic_search/control&initiator=search-results&acceptTC=1.
- Birthplace
- Unclear from Context
- Unclear from Context