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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 30. Chapters: Thomas Clayton, Richard Bassett, John M. Vining, John M. Clayton, Joel Rakes, Henry Molleston, Charles L. Terry, Jr., James Sykes, Willard Hall, Henry M. Ridgely, John Patten, Gove Saulsbury, William D. Denney, J. Frank Allee, Simeon S. Pennewill, James D. McGinnis, J. Allen Frear, Jr., Josiah O. Wolcott, William H. Boyce, John W. Houston, Eli M. Saulsbury, Martin W. Bates, Earle D. Willey, George Sykes, Nathaniel B. Smithers, Joseph P. Comegys, James H. Hughes, John A. Nicholson, Harry A. Richardson, Madison Brengle, Richard R. Kenney, Teri Polo, Renie Martin, Cyrus Cassells, James Tilton, Stephen R. Speed, Brian Bushweller, William Ellison Pennewill, John C. Sigler, Ronnie Murphy, Mike Meade, Dyre Kearney, Eleazer McComb. Excerpt: Thomas Clayton (July 1777 - August 21, 1854) was an American lawyer and politician from Dover in Kent County, Delaware. He was a member of the Federalist Party and later the Whig Party. He served in the Delaware General Assembly, as Attorney General of Delaware, as Secretary of State of Delaware, as Chief Justice of the Delaware Supreme Court, as U.S. Representative from Delaware, and as U.S. Senator from Delaware. In 1846 he was one of two members of the United States Senate to vote against declaring war on Mexico. Clayton was born at Massey in Kent County, Maryland, son of the former Governor of Delaware, Dr. Joshua Clayton, and Rachael McCleary Clayton. It is said he was born while his mother was fleeing invading British troops on the way from their Elk River landing to the Battle of Brandywine. While the Clayton's were natives of Kent County, Delaware, Rachael McCleary was the niece and adopted daughter of Richard Bassett, the aristocratic heir to the expansive Bohemia Manor estates. The family lived at Bohemia Manor and through this connection, Joshua Clayton later acquired his home...
