William Henry Harrison Clayton, best known as W. H. H. Clayton
(October 13, 1840 â€" December 14, 1920), was an American lawyer and
judge in post-Civil War Arkansas and Indian Territory Oklahoma. He
served as the United States Attorney for the United States District
Court for the Western District of Arkansas, as chief prosecutor in the
court of "hanging judge" Isaac Parker for 14 years and as a federal
judge in the Central District of the Indian Territory that became the
state of Oklahoma.He served as a lieutenant in the Union Army during
the U.S. Civil War and fought in some of the key battles of the war.He
was the brother of Arkansas Governor Powell Clayton, President Judge
of the Thirty-Second Judicial District of Pennsylvania Thomas J.
Clayton and twin-brother of U.S. Congressman-elect John Middleton
Clayton.Clayton was born in Bethel Township, Pennsylvania, to John and
Ann Glover Clayton. The Clayton family was descended from early Quaker
settlers of Pennsylvania. Clayton's ancestor William Clayton emigrated
from Chichester, England, was a personal friend of William Penn, one
of nine justices who sat at the Upland Court in 1681, and a member of
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