Clayton, JOHN MIDDLETON, statesman, was born in Sussex county, Delaware, 24th July 1796, studied at Yale, and practised as a lawyer. In 1829 he became a United States senator, and while secretary of state in 1849-50, he negotiated the Clayton-Bulwer Treaty with Britain, guaranteeing the neutrality of lines of interoceanic communication across Nicaragua or elsewhere. He died 9th November 1856. See BULWER.
Clayton, JOHN MIDDLETON
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