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Clayton, Charles

surveyor, state legislator, congressman, was born in 1825 in England. He was a member of the state legislature in 1863-66; a member of the board of supervisors of San Francisco from 1864 to 1869; and in 1870 was appointed surveyor of customs of the port and district of San Francisco. He was elected to the forty-third congress, serving on the committees on commerce and the centennial celebration.

Clayton, Henry D

lawyer, congressman, was born in Barbour county, Ala. He was elected to the fifty-fifth congress as a democrat.

Clayton, Joshua

United States senator, governor. He was president of Delaware from 1789 to 1793; governor from 1793 to 1796; and was chosen senator of the United States in 1798. He died Aug. 11, 1798, in Middletown, Del.

Clayton, Powell

soldier, railroad president, United States senator, governor, was born Aug. 7, 1833, in Bethel, Pa. He entered the union army in Kansas, and was promoted to brigadier-general in 1864. He settled in Arkansas at the close of the war as a planter; was elected governor in 1868, and United States senator in 1871, for the term ending in 1877. Since 1888 he has been president of the Eureka Springs railway.

Clayton, Thomas

jurist, congressman, United States senator, was born March 9, 1778, in Newcastle, Del. He was a representative in congress from Delaware from 1813 to 1817; United States senator from 1823 to 1826, and again from 1837 to 1847. He was, at different periods, a member of the Delaware legislature, chief justice of the court of common pleas, and of the superior court. He died Aug. 21, 1854, in Newcastle, Del.

Claytor, Graham

lawyer, author, poet, was born Oct. 27, 1852, in Bedford county, Va. For many years he taught school; then engaged in the practice of law at Bedford City, Va.; and in 1895 was elected the commonwealth's attorney. He is the author of two novels of southern life, and a book of pastoral poems.

Cleary, Kate Phelim

author, poet, was born Aug. 20, 1863, in Canada. A number of excellent short stories and poems have appeared from the pen of this author in standard collections and in current magazines.

Cleaveland, J. F

merchant, congressman. He was a representative in congress from Georgia from 1836 to 1839.

He subsequently removed to Charleston, where he became a merchant. He died May 19, 1841.

Cleaveland, John

clergyman, author, was born April 22, 1722, in Canterbury, Conn. He was a congregational minister of Massachusetts, and the author of The Work of God at Chebacco (now Essex) in 1763; Essay to Defend Christ's Sacrifice and Atonement against Aspersions Cast on the Same by Dr. Mayhew; Reply to Dr. Mayhew's Letter of Reproof; and Treatise on Infant Baptism. He died April 22, 1799, in Ipswich, Mass.

Cleaveland, Moses

pioneer, was born Jan. 29, 1754, in Canterbury, Conn.

He was commissioned captain of a company of sappers and miners in 1779, served for several years, and then resumed legal practice. He was several times elected to the legislature, and in 1796 was commissioned brigadier-general of militia. He died Nov. 16, 1806, in Canterbury, Conn.

Cleaveland, Nehemiah

educator, author, was born in 1796 in Topsfield, Mass. He was an educator of Massachusetts, who published a History of Bowdoin College, with Biographical Sketches of Its Graduates, 1806-79, which was edited and completed by A. S. Packard. He died in 1877.

Cleaves, Nathan

lawyer, state legislator, jurist, was born in January, 1835, in Bridgton, Maine. He was elected city solicitor of Portland, Maine, in 1869; and has represented that city twice in the legislature, and been judge of probate for the county.