Complex sentence: Powell Clayton (August 7,1833 August 25,1914) was an engineer, a Union Army general in the American Civil War, the first Reconstruction Governor of the State of Arkansas, and Ambassador to Mexico during the administrations of William McKinley and Theodore Roosevelt.
Split into simpler sentences: Powell Clayton (August 7,1833 August 25,1914) was an engineer, a Union Army general in the American Civil War, and the first Reconstruction Governor of the State of Arkansas. He was appointed as Ambassador to Mexico during the administrations of William McKinley and Theodore Roosevelt.