Henry D. Clayton House

Infobox_nrhp | name =Henry D. Clayton House
nrhp_type =nhl

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caption = Henry De Lamar Clayton House
nearest_city= Clayton, Alabama
locmapin = Alabama
lat_degrees = 31 | lat_minutes = 51 | lat_seconds = 56.2 | lat_direction = N
long_degrees = 85 | long_minutes = 27 | long_seconds = 08.5 | long_direction = W
area =
built =1896
architect= Unknown
architecture= No Style Listed
designated= December 08, 1976cite web|url=http://tps.cr.nps.gov/nhl/detail.cfm?ResourceId=1707&ResourceType=Building
title=Henry D. Clayton House |accessdate=2007-10-20|work=National Historic Landmark summary listing|publisher=National Park Service]
added = December 08, 1976cite web|url=http://www.nr.nps.gov/|title=National Register Information System|date=2007-01-23|work=National Register of Historic Places|publisher=National Park Service]
governing_body = Private
refnum=76002259

Henry D. Clayton House, in Clayton, Alabama, was the birthplace, childhood home, and adult home of Henry De Lamar Clayton, Jr., a legislator and judge. While serving in the U.S. Congress, he sponsored the Clayton Antitrust Act of 1914. This act that prohibited particular types of conduct that were deemed to not be in the best interest of a competitive market. He was appointed as a Federal District Judge in 1914, where he became recognized as an advocate for judicial reform.

The plantation house was built by his father Henry DeLamar Clayton, a Confederate general.

The house was declared a National Historic Landmark in 1976.citation|title=PDFlink| [http://pdfhost.focus.nps.gov/docs/NHLS/Text/76002259.pdf National Register of Historic Places Inventory-Nomination: Henry D. Clayton House / Clayton Plantation] |358 KB|date=February, 1976 |author=Dorothy K. Dickens, Ralph Christian, and George R. Adams |publisher=National Park Service and PDFlink| [http://pdfhost.focus.nps.gov/docs/NHLS/Photos/76002259.pdf Accompanying 4 photos, exterior, from 1975.] |3.10 MB]

It is located 1 mile south of Clayton, off Alabama Bypass 30.

ee also

*List of National Historic Landmarks in Alabama

References