Margaret Hayes Clark

Margaret Hayes Clark is an American politician. She served as a city councillor, and later as mayor, of Rosemead, California. She is currently serving her seventh term as mayor. Clark is also a board member of the National First Ladies Day Commission. She is the great-granddaughter of President Rutherford B. Hayes and First Lady Lucy Webb Hayes.

Early life, family, and education Clark is the great-granddaughter of U.S. President Rutherford B. Hayes and U.S. First Lady Lucy Webb Hayes.

She studied at the University of Bordeaux through the University of California's educational abroad program and graduated with a bachelor's degree and a teaching credential from the University of California, Los Angeles.

Career Clark, who is a member of the Republican Party, was elected to the Rosemead City Council in March 1991. Prior to her election to the city council, she served as a commissioner on the Rosemead planning and traffic commissions in the 1980s. She was elected to her seventh term as mayor of Rosemead in 2024.

Clark served as a founding board member of the San Gabriel and Lower Los Angeles Rivers and Mountains Conservatory.

As a great-granddaughter of First Lady Hayes, she was appointed to the National First Ladies Day Commission.