Col. James Brizzolara - Ft. Smith Ark. Wm.H.H. Clayton

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Col. James Brizzolara - Ft. Smith Ark. Wm.H.H. Clayton One very nice colletible Texas item: McAlester, OK. William Henry Harrison Clayton was born in 1840 and spent most of his boyhood in Pennsylvania. He moved to Pine Bluff, Arkansas, in 1864 and studied law t He was Superintendent of Public Instruction for a seven-county district and established more than 30 new schools during his tenure. Admitted to the Bar in 1871, he was appointed Prosecuting Attorney for the First Judicial District of Arkansas. Governor Elisha Baxter appointed him Judge of the First Judicial Court in 1873. While living in Pine Bluff, he married Florence A. Barnes, a "Southern Belle." Clayton moved to Fort Smith in 1874 when President Ulysses Grant appointed him U. S. District Attorney of the Western District of Arkansas in the famous court of Judge Parker. Prosecuting over 10,000 cases in Judge Parker's Court, Clayton convicted more than 80 men charged with murder, an unparalleled record. He was re-appointed by President Rutherford B. Hayes in 1897. Clayton left Fort Smith in 1897 to serve as Judge of the U. S. Court for the Central District of Indian Territory. He died in McAlester, Oklahoma, in 1920. Clayton is buried in the Fort Smith National Cemetery beside his wife, Florence, who had died 14 years earlier Col. James Brizzolara: 9/24/1913 - He was from read more
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