Benjamin S. W. Clark (May 27, 1829 – October 19, 1912) was an American merchant and politician from New York.
Samuel Smith Clark was Franklin County Clerk from 1832 to 1834.
Samuel's father was Benjamin Clark who was First Judge of the Franklin County Court from 1825 to 1829.
In March 1876, he was appointed by Governor Samuel J. Tilden an Inspector of State Prisons to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Moss K. Platt.
[1] He was the first New York State Superintendent of Public Works under the State constitutional amendment of 1876, appointed after a year-long struggle between Governor Lucius Robinson and a hostile New York State Senate which had rejected the appointment of Robinson's first three nominees, George B. McClellan, Charles S. Fairchild and Daniel Magone.