Caleb R. Layton

Caleb R. Layton

Caleb Rodney Layton (born September 8, 1851 in Frankford , Delaware , †  November 11, 1930 in Georgetown , Delaware) was an American politician . Between 1919 and 1923 he represented the state of Delaware in the US House of Representatives .

Career

Caleb Layton was born on a farm in Sussex County . He attended the public schools in his home country and the Georgetown Academy . He then studied at Amherst College in Massachusetts until 1873 . After studying medicine at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia , he began working as a doctor in Georgetown.

Layton became a member of the Republican Party . Between 1876 and 1888 he was on the board of the party in his district and from 1896 to 1901 he was party chairman there. In the years 1896, 1900 and 1904 Layton was a delegate to the respective Republican National Conventions , at which William McKinley and Theodore Roosevelt were nominated as presidential candidates of the party. Between 1897 and 1905 he also published the Union Republican newspaper.

From 1901 to 1905 Layton was Secretary of State executive officer of the government of Delaware and between 1906 and 1910 he was an auditor in several federal departments in Washington . In 1918 he was elected to the US House of Representatives. There he succeeded the Democrat Albert F. Polk on March 4, 1919 , whom he had defeated in the elections. After a re-election in 1920, Layton was able to complete two terms in Congress until March 3, 1923 . In the 1922 election he was defeated by the Democrat William H. Boyce . After his tenure in Congress, Layton returned to working as a doctor in Georgetown. He died there in November 1930. He was married to Anna E. Sipple.

Web links

• Caleb R. Layton in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)

• Caleb R. Layton in the database of Find a Grave (English)