Clanton was active in the Republican Party . In 1892 he was an at-large delegate from Louisiana to the 1892 Republican National Convention In 1895 he was the secretary at the Colored Baptist Foreign Mission Convention , again presided by E. K. Love . Also in 1895 he became principal of the North Louisiana Industrial High School for blacks In 1903 he became chaplain and principal of the Normal Department of the Agricultural and Mechanical College of Alabama and served that year as acting president during the illness of the institute 's regular president Later in his career he moved to the Alabama Baptist Colored University ( also called Selma University ) and became dean of the Theological Department . In the fall of 1917 he became assistant library at the University of Chicago
1892 Republican National Convention
1892 Republican National Convention
Solomon T. Clanton