Andrew Inglis Clark was a Member of the Tasmanian Parliament for various terms from his first election success in 1878; in 1898 he was appointed a judge of the Supreme Court of Tasmania. A prominent federalist, Clark was a chief author of Australia's Constitution, providing a draft constitution to the 1891 National Australasian Convention in Sydney and assisting Samuel Griffith, Edmund Barton and Charles Cameron Kingston in the revisions.