Years of Service: 1829-1836; 1845-1849;
1853-1855; 1855-1856 Party: Anti-Jackson; Whig; Whig; Opposition
CLAYTON, John Middleton, (nephew of
Joshua Clayton, cousin of Thomas Clayton, and great-granduncle of C. Douglass
Buck), a Senator from Delaware; born in Dagsboro, Sussex County, Del., July 24,
1796; pursued preparatory studies at academies in Berlin, Md., and Milford,
Del., and was graduated from Yale College in 1815; studied law at the Litchfield
Law School; was admitted to the bar in 1819 and commenced practice in Dover;
member, State house of representatives 1824; secretary of State of Delaware
1826-1828; elected to the United States Senate in 1829; reelected in 1835 and
served from March 4, 1829, until December 29, 1836, when he resigned; chairman,
Committee on the Judiciary (Twenty-third and Twenty-fourth Congresses); chief
justice of Delaware 1837-1839; elected as a Whig to the United States Senate and
served from March 4, 1845, until February 23, 1849, when he resigned to accept a
Cabinet position; Secretary of State in the Cabinet of President Zachary Taylor
1849-1850; while Secretary of State negotiated the Clayton-Bulwer treaty with
Great Britain; elected as a Whig to the United States Senate and served from
March 4, 1853, until his death in Dover, Del., November 9, 1856; interment in
Presbyterian Cemetery. - Biographical
Data courtesy of the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress.
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