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Any of several placenames in England and elsewhere, from Old English clæg (“clay”) + tūn (“enclosure, settlement”)
A habitational surname from the placename
A male given name from the surname
Any of several placenames in England and elsewhere, from Old English clæg "clay" + tūn "enclosure, settlement"
from the surname
Clayton John Middleton Clayton Bulwer Treaty Powell Adam Clayton Jr. Urey Harold Clayton Wolfe Thomas Clayton
An English habitational surname from the placename
{i} male first name; family name; name of cities in several states of the USA

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Clayton-Bulwer Treaty
(1850) Compromise agreement designed to harmonize contending British and U.S. interests in Central America. The treaty provided that the two countries jointly control and protect what was to become the Panama Canal. The Clayton-Bulwer treaty was superseded in 1901 by the Hay-Pauncefote Treaty, under which the British government agreed to allow the U.S. to construct and control the canal
Adam Clayton Jr. Powell
born Nov. 29, 1908, New Haven, Conn., U.S. died April 4, 1972, Miami, Fla. U.S. politician. In 1937 he succeeded his father as pastor of the Abyssinian Baptist Church in Harlem, New York City, and built its membership to 13,000. Elected to the New York City Council in 1941, he became the first African American to serve on that body. In the U.S. House of Representatives (1945-67, 1969-71), he sponsored much social-welfare legislation, including a minimum wage act, antipoverty acts, and bills providing federal aid to education. Known for his flamboyance and his lack of concern for House decorum, he was the target of a libel suit and was investigated for financial misconduct. In 1967 the House voted to exclude him, but the U.S. Supreme Court later ruled that the House's action was unconstitutional
Harold Clayton Urey
born April 29, 1893, Walkerton, Ind., U.S. died Jan. 5, 1981, La Jolla, Calif. U.S. scientist. He received his doctorate from the University of California at Berkeley and thereafter taught at various universities. He was awarded a Nobel Prize in 1934 for discovering deuterium and heavy water. He was a key figure in the development of the atomic bomb; his group worked on the gaseous diffusion process for separation of uranium-235. He devised methods for estimating the temperature of ancient oceans, theorized on the compositions of primordial atmospheres, and studied the relative abundances of the elements, making fundamental contributions to a widely accepted theory of the origin of the Earth and other planets in The Planets, (1952)
John Middleton Clayton
born July 24, 1796, Dagsboro, Del., U.S. died Nov. 9, 1856, Dover, Del. U.S. politician. He served as Delaware's secretary of state (1826-28) and chief justice (1837). He also represented Delaware in the U.S. Senate (1829-36, 1845-49). As U.S. secretary of state (1849-50) under Pres. Zachary Taylor, he negotiated the Clayton-Bulwer Treaty
Thomas Clayton Wolfe
born Oct. 3, 1900, Asheville, N.C., U.S. died Sept. 15, 1938, Baltimore, Md. U.S. writer. Wolfe studied at the University of North Carolina and in 1923 moved to New York City, where he taught at New York University while writing plays. Look Homeward, Angel (1929), his first and best-known novel, and Of Time and the River (1935) are thinly veiled autobiographies. In The Story of a Novel (1936) he describes his close working relationship with the editor Maxwell Perkins, who helped him shape the chaotic manuscripts for his first two books into publishable form. His short stories were collected in From Death to Morning (1935). After his death at age 37 from tuberculosis, the novels The Web and the Rock (1939) and You Can't Go Home Again (1940) were among the works extracted from the manuscripts he left
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