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Alexander Mosby Clayton (January 15, 1801 – September 30, 1880) was a justice of the Supreme Court of Mississippi from 1842 to 1852.[1][2]
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.[1]
Clayton was described as:
...a leader at the bar of two States and at the time of his death had practiced law longer than any other man in the country. He was eminent at the bar of Tennessee in early life and afterward at the bar of Mississippi. He sat on the supreme bench of the latter State for many years and his opinions are regarded with great respect by lawyers everywhere. Subsequent to this period, he was made territorial judge of Arkansas and served as consul at Havana under President Pierce. He wrote the ordinance of secession under which Mississippi withdrew from the Union.[3]
In May 1853, President Franklin Pierce appointed Clayton to serve as Consul to Havana.[4] An editorial in the Natchez Daily Courier condemned the appointment, asserting that Clayton had authored a seccessionist address on behald 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".[5] Clayton nevertheless received the appointment; he resigned the following year, and was succeeded by Roger Barton in August 1854.[6]
Clayton died on his farm near Lamar, Mississippi, at the age of 88.[3]
References
- ^ a b Southwick, Leslie H. "Alexander Clayton (1801–1889) Judge". Mississippi Encyclopedia. Retrieved April 12, 2022.
- ^ Leslie Southwick, Mississippi Supreme Court Elections: A Historical Perspective 1916-1996, 18 Miss. C. L. Rev. 115 (1997-1998).
- ^ a b "Judge Alexander M. Clayton, Lamar, Miss.", The New Orleans Times-Democrat (October 2, 1889), p. 4.
- ^ "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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