the same day. His service terminated on December 21, 1929, due to his death in Montgomery. He was interred in Fairview Cemetery in Eufaula. Family Clayton's father, Henry DeLamar Clayton, was a Major General in the Confederate States Army. His brother, Bertram Tracy Clayton, was a United States Representative from New York. His earliest immigrant ancestors came to North America from England. He was descended from Henry Grey, 1st Earl of Stamford, Robert Bertie, 1st Earl of Lindsey and William Villiers, 2nd Viscount Grandison. Many of his ancestors were Cavaliers during the English Civil War. He was a direct descendant of a member of the British Parliament, Robert Clayton. Home Clayton's home in Clayton, the Henry D. Clayton House, was declared a National Historic Landmark in 1976. References Sources Bibliography Rodabaugh, Karl. Congressman Henry D. Clayton and the Dothan Post Office Fight: Patronage and Politics in the Progressive Era. Alabama Review 33 (April 1980): 125-49; Rodabaugh, Karl. Congressman Henry D. Clayton, Patriarch in Politics: A Southern Congressman During the Progressive Era. Alabama Review 31 (April 1978): 110-20. |- |- |- 1857 births 1929 deaths 20th-century American judges Democratic Party members of the United States House of Representatives from Alabama Judges of the United States District Court for the Middle District of Alabama Judges of the United States District Court for the Northern District of Alabama Democratic Party members of the Alabama House of Representatives People from Clayton, Alabama United States Attorneys for the Middle District of Alabama United States district court judges appointed by Woodrow Wilson University of Alabama alumni