Bertram Tracy Clayton

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Bertram Tracy Clayton (born October 19, 1862 in Clayton , Alabama , † May 30, 1918 in Noyers-Saint-Martin , France ) was an American officer and politician ( Democratic Party ). He was the brother of US MP Henry De Lamar Clayton .

Career

Bertram Tracy Clayton attended the University of Alabama at Tuscaloosa . He graduated in 1886 at the Military Academy in West Point ( New York ), where he became Second Lieutenant in the 11th Regiment , US Infantry was appointed. He served there until April 30, 1888, when he resigned and began working as a civil engineer in Brooklyn . During the Spanish-American War , he joined the United States Volunteers on May 20, 1898 , where he held the rank of captain in Troop C, New York Volunteers. He later had command of Troops A, B and C of the New York Cavalry and served in Puerto Rico .

Clayton also had a political career. He was elected to the 56th Congress in 1898 for the 4th  District of New York State , but suffered a defeat in his candidacy for the 57th Congress . Clayton served in the United States House of Representatives from March 4, 1899 to March 3, 1901. He was appointed captain in the United States Regular Army on April 17, 1901 by US President Theodore Roosevelt . He was then stationed in the Philippines between 1901 and 1904 as quartermaster in the US Army . Clayton was then between 1911 and 1914 quartermaster and purser ( disbursing officer ) at the Military Academy at West Point. During the First World War he was appointed Colonel in the Quartermaster Corps of the US Army on March 15, 1918 . He was quartermaster in the 1st division in France. Clayton fell in 1918 near Noyers-Saint-Martin in the Oise department . His body was then transferred to the United States so that it could be buried in Arlington National Cemetery.

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SURNAME Clayton, Bertram Tracy
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American lawyer and politician
DATE OF BIRTH October 19, 1862
PLACE OF BIRTH near Clayton , Alabama
DATE OF DEATH May 30, 1918
Place of death near Noyers-Saint-Martin , France