Английская Википедия:Alexander M. Clayton
Шаблон:Use American English Шаблон:Use mdy dates Шаблон:Infobox officeholder Alexander Mosby Clayton (January 15, 1801 – September 30, 1889)[1] was an American politician who served as a justice of the Supreme Court of Mississippi from 1842 to 1852,[2][3] and as a deputy from Mississippi to the Provisional Congress of the Confederate States from February to May 1861.
Biography
Born in Campbell County, Virginia, to William Willis Clayton and Clarissa Mosby Clayton, he attended the local schools read law with a Lynchburg attorney in 1822 to gain admission to the bar in 1823.[2] He migrated first to Arkansas, where he served on the Territorial Supreme Court in 1832, then to Mississippi where he served as a state court judge from 1842 to 1852. From 1844 to 1852, he served as the first president of the University of Mississippi Board of Trustees.[4][2] In May 1853, President Franklin Pierce appointed Clayton to serve as Consul to Havana, Cuba.[1][5] An editorial in the Natchez Daily Courier condemned the appointment, asserting that Clayton had authored a secessionist address on behalf of a committee appointed by the legislature to respond to the Compromise of 1850, with the editorial describing Clayton as "a leader of the secession forces".[1][6] Clayton nevertheless received the appointment; he resigned the following year, and was succeeded by Roger Barton in August 1854.[7]
Clayton represented Mississippi in the Provisional C.S. Congress from February to May, 1861. He resigned and was appointed as a Confederate District Court Judge for the balance of the year. After the war he again served as a state court judge from 1866 to 1869.[2]
Death
Clayton died on his farm near Lamar, Mississippi, at the age of 88.[1] In his obituary, Clayton was described as "a leader at the bar of two States and at the time of his death [who] had practiced law longer than any other man in the country".[1]
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- ↑ 1,0 1,1 1,2 1,3 1,4 "Judge Alexander M. Clayton, Lamar, Miss.", The New Orleans Times-Democrat (October 2, 1889), p. 4.
- ↑ 2,0 2,1 2,2 2,3 Шаблон:Cite web
- ↑ Leslie Southwick, Mississippi Supreme Court Elections: A Historical Perspective 1916-1996, 18 Miss. C. L. Rev. 115 (1997-1998).
- ↑ Шаблон:Cite news
- ↑ "Appointments", The Yazoo Democrat (June 1, 1853), p. 3.
- ↑ "Another Resister Appointed", Natchez Daily Courier (May 26, 1853), p. 3.
- ↑ "Appointments by the President", The Weekly Mississippian (August 16, 1854), p. 2.
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