Source: "Alabama and Statistical Register", 1903, State of Alabama Department of Archives and History, Compiled by Thomas M. Owen, Director, Montgomery, AL, Brown Printing Company, 1903 Page 26 Third District - counties - Barbour, Bullock, Coffee, Dale, Geneva, Henry, Lee, and Russell (8 counties) HENRY D. CLAYTON, Democrat of Eufaula, was born in Barbour county, Ala. February 10, 1857; is the son of Major Gen. Henry D. Clayton, and wife Victoria V., daughter of Gen. John Hunter, of Eufaula, Ala.; is a lawyer by profession; is now and has been since 1888 the Alabama member of the Democratic national committee; has served one term in the Alabama legislature, being chairman of the judiciary committee; was a United States district attorney from May, 1893, to October, 1896; was a Democratic Presidential elector in 1888 and 1892; was elected to the Fifty-fifth and Fifty-sixth Congresses, and re-elected to the Fifty-seventh Congress, receiving 13,420 votes to 3,179 for W.O. Mulkey, Republican, and 142 scattering. Re-elected to the Fifty-eighth Congress. Mr. Clayton's wife, now deceased, was a daughter of the late Gen. Wm. Wirt Allen, of Montgomery, Ala.