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History and Government—Congressional Biographies—ArkansasCLAYTON, Powell
(1833—1914)
Senate Years of Service:
1871-1877
Party:
Republican
CLAYTON, Powell, a Senator from Arkansas; born in Bethel, Delaware County, Pa., August 7, 1833; attended the common schools and Partridge Military Academy, Bristol, Pa.; studied civil engineering in Wilmington, Del.; moved to Leavenworth, Kans., where he practiced his profession; appointed city engineer in 1857; at the outbreak of the Civil War entered the Union Army and served until 1865, attaining the rank of brigad ier general; moved to Arkansas and became a planter; elected Governor of Arkansas in 1868; elected as a Republican to the United States Senate and served from March 4, 1871, to March 3, 1877; chairman, Committee on Enrolled Bills (Forty-third Congress), Committee on Civil Service Retrenchment (Forty-fourth Congress); moved to Little Rock, Ark.; member of the Republican National Committee; ambassador to Mexico 1897-1905; lived in retirement until his death in Washington, D.C., on August 25, 1914; interment in Arlington National Cemetery, Arlington, Va.
Bibliography
American National Biography
; Dictionary of American Biography
; Burnside, William H. The Honorable Powell Clayton
. Conway, AR: UCA Press, 1991; Clayton, Powell. The Aftermath of the Civil War in Arkansas
. 1915. Reprint. New York: Negro Universities Press, 1969.
Burnside, William H. The Honorable Powell Clayton
. Conway, AR: UCA Press, 1991.
___. “Powell Clayton: Ambassador to Mexico, 1897-1905.” Arkansas Historical Quarterly
38 (Winter 1979): 328-44.
Clayton, Powell. The Aftermath of the Civil War in Arkansas
. 1915. Reprint. New York: Negro Universities Press, 1969.
Driggs, Orval Truman, Jr. “The Issues of the Powell Clayton Regime, 1868-1871.” Arkansas Historical Quarterly
8 (Spring 1949): 1-75.
Swinney, Everette. “United States v. Powell Clayton: Use of the Federal Enforcement Acts in Arkansas.” Arkansas Historical Quarterly
26 (Summer 1967): 143-54.
Westwood, Howard C. “The Federals’ Cold Shoulder to Arkansas’ Powell Clayton.” Civil War History
26 (September 1980): 240-56.
Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1771-Present
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