The Spectator. (Ozark, Ark.) 1911-1916, 1914-08-28
POWELL CAYTON
DIED TUESDAY,
FORMER GOVERNOR OF ARkAN-
SAS AND FOR MANY YEARS
REPUBLICAN LEAD Err.

Western Newspaper Union News Service.
Acknowledgement Powell Gay
ton, formerly governor and United
States senator from Arkansas, died
at his apartments here Wednesday
night at the age of 81 years. He had
been in feeble health for many years.
A native of Bethel, Pa, and educat-
ed as a civil engineer, General Clayton
emigrated to Kansas in 1861 and there
entered the Union army. He rose to
the rank of brigadier general. After
the war he went to Arkansas and in
1868 was elected governor of the state.
Three years later he was sent to the
United States Senate.
The general was appointed ambas
sador to Mexico by President McKin-
ley in 1897 and held that position until
1905, when he retired from public life.
For 40 years he was a member of the
Republican National Committee and
attended every meeting.
Private funeral services were held
here and the body was buried at
Arlington cemetery, with military hon
ors.
General Clayton is survived by a
widow and four children; Captain Pow
ell Clayton Jr., of the general staf
of the United States army; Mrs. Sam
uel G. Jones, wife of Major Samuel G.
Jones, general staff, United States
army; Baroness Charlotte Moncheur,
wife of Baron Ludovac Moncheur, of
Belgium; and Katherine Grant-Duff.
wife Of Arthur GRANDEUR, English
minister to Belgium, and one brother,
w. H. H. Clayton, of McAlester, Okla.
General Clayton was the ninth gov
ernor of Arkansas, serving as the Re-
publican executive from 1858 to 1871,
when he was elected to the United
States Senate. He was the ruling
power of the Republican party from
1867 until the hour of his death We'd
nesday night, although he retired from
politics slightly more than year ago,
leaving H. l.. Remmel of Little Rock
as the state party head.
He lived in the county of his birth,
Delaware county, Pa, until 1855, when
he moved to Kansas, where he Joined
the Federal army at the beginning Of
the war.
He was a member Of the First Kan
sas infantry and took part in the bat
tie of Oak Hill, better known as Wilson
Creek, near Springfield, Mo. He was
made lieutenant colonel as a result OF
his bravery and shortly afterward be-
came colonel of the Fifth Kansas in
fantry. He was with General Steele
at the capture of Little Rock, and was
assigned to the command Of Pine Bluff,
where he remained nutil the close OF
the war.
He was governor during the troubl-
Gus times which followed the election
of congressman to the Forty-first Con-
Cress on December 4, 1868, when the
state was declared to be under martial
law.
Governor Clayton was elected to the
United States Senate by the legislature
in January, 1871, to succeed Alexander
Mcdonald.
Ora A. Hadley was elected presi-
dent of the State Senate to succeed
James NJ. Johnson and Governor Clay
ton was for a second time elected to
the United States Senate, Hadley be-
coming acting governor.
General Clayton remained in the
United States Senate until 1877, when
he returned to Little Rock. Shortly
afterward he located at Eureka
Springs in Carroll ocnuty, where he
was identified with railroad construc-
ton work.
He was a member Of the Republican
National Committee for nearly 40
years, retiring voluntarily in the fall
OF 1912, when H. l.. Remmel succeed
ed him.
He was appointed minister to Next
CO in 1898, and was advanced to the
position OF ambassador to Mexico soon
afterward He was reappointed by
President Roosevelt and served the
United States in Mexico for eight
years.