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Clayton, Powell

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Clayton, Powell (1833–1914)

US Republican governor and senator. As Arkansas governor 1868–71, he attacked the Ku Klux Klan and encouraged railroad construction. Indicted for corruption, but never convicted, he served in the US Senate for Arkansas 1871–77, later becoming US ambassador to Mexico from 1897–1905.

He was born in Bethel County, Pennsylvania. A civil engineer, he fought with Kansas regiments during the US Civil War 1861–65, buying a plantation in Arkansas afterwards.



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