The Henry D. Clayton House is a historic plantation house in

Clayton, Alabama Clayton is a town in and the county seat of Barbour County, Alabama, United States. The population was 3,008 at the 2010 census, up from 1,475 in 2000. History Clayton has been the county seat since 1834, two years after the creation of Barbou ...

, United States, most notable as the birthplace and childhood home of

Henry De Lamar Clayton, Jr. Henry De Lamar Clayton Jr. (February 10, 1857 – December 21, 1929) was a United States representative from Alabama and a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Middle District of Alabama and the United States D ...

(1857–1929), a legislator and judge. Clayton came to prominence while serving in the United States Congress as the author of the Clayton Antitrust Act of 1914. This act prohibited particular types of conduct deemed not to be in the best interest of a competitive market. He was appointed a Federal District Judge in 1914, where he became recognized as an advocate for judicial reform. The house was built by his father,

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General Henry DeLamar Clayton, Sr. It was declared a National Historic Landmark on December 8, 1976. and

Description and history

The Henry D. Clayton House is located approximately from Clayton on a remnant of the former Clayton Plantation. It is accessed via the original plantation drive, extending south from SR 30 at Clayton Street. The house is a -story wood-frame structure, with a gabled roof and clapboarded exterior. The main roof extends beyond the north facade to shelter a porch with square supports. A shed-roofed porch also extends across part of the house's rear, where it joins with the kitchen ell. Outbuildings in the plantation complex include a smokehouse, carriage barn, and a small cottage used by Henry Clayton Jr. as his office. The house was built circa 1850 by Henry DeLamar Clayton, Sr., who served in the American Civil War as a general in the

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. It was the birthplace and childhood home of his son, Henry Clayton Jr. The younger Clayton studied law at the University of Alabama, and embarked on a political career in the

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in 1880. In 1910, as head of the House Judiciary Committee, he successfully prosecuted the impeachment of

Robert W. Archbald Robert Wodrow Archbald (September 10, 1848 – August 19, 1926), known as R. W. Archbald, was a United States circuit judge of the United States Commerce Court, the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit and the United States Circ ...

, a Commerce Court judge accused of profiting from his position. His best-known accomplishment was the passage of the Clayton Antitrust Act, a significant amendment to the Sherman Antitrust Act.

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* {{National Register of Historic Places National Historic Landmarks in Alabama National Register of Historic Places in Barbour County, Alabama Houses on the National Register of Historic Places in Alabama Houses completed in 1850 Houses in Barbour County, Alabama

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