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Clayton, Benjamin F

farmer, state legislator, was born in 1839, near Carlisle, Ky. He moved to Indiana in 1855, and to Iowa in 1873. He is a successful farmer and business man; has lectured extensively, and contributed to current literature.

He has been a member of the Iowa house of representatives for three terms; and has been president of the board of trustees of Simpson college of Indianola, Iowa. For four years he has been president of the Farmers' National congress of the United States; and in 1895 was president of the Pan- American Agricultural parliament at Atlanta, Ga. In 1896 he was prominently identified as a nominee for the governorship of Iowa.