Powell Clayton’s Death – Cause and Date

The politician Powell Clayton died at the age of 81. Here is all you want to know, and more!

Biography - A Short Wiki

Politician, military veteran and engineer who served as a General in the Union Army during the American Civil War and became the first Republican Governor of Arkansas. He was later named the United States Ambassador to Mexico.

He married Adaline McGraw from Helena, Arkansas. His brother, Republican Congressman John M. Clayton, was assassinated in 1889.

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These are the days for strong men to courageously expose wrong.

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In my preaching the shafts are ever aimed at the brainwashed horde.

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Freedom is an internal achievement rather than an external adjustment.

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Let’s trace the birth of an idea. It’s born as rampant radicalism, then it becomes progressivism, then liberalism, then it becomes moderated conservative, outmoded, and gone.

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Mix a conviction with a man and something happens.