Eva M. Clayton

Eva M. Clayton

Eva M. Clayton (born September 16, 1934 in Savannah , Georgia ) is an American politician . Between 1992 and 2003 she represented the state of North Carolina in the US House of Representatives .

Career

Eva Clayton attended Johnson C. Smith University in Charlotte , North Carolina , until 1955 . She then studied to 1962 at North Carolina Central University in Durham . She later became the director of the University of North Carolina Health Manpower Development Program . From 1977 to 1981, she served as the head of the Department of Natural Resources and City Expansion for the North Carolina State Government. Politically, Clayton became a member of the Democratic Party . In 1968 she ran unsuccessfully for Congress . From 1982 to 1992 she was a district administrator in Warren County .

After the death of MP Walter B. Jones , she was elected as its successor to the US House of Representatives in Washington, DC at the due by-election for the first seat of North Carolina , where she took up her new mandate on November 3, 1992. After four re-elections, she could remain in Congress until January 3, 2003. The terrorist attacks on September 11, 2001 , coincided with her time as Congresswoman . In 2002 she decided not to run again.

In 2003, Eva Clayton became a board member of the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), a sub-organization of the UN that is dedicated to the fight against hunger and therefore tries to increase agricultural productivity worldwide. She is married to Theaoseus Clayton.

Web links

• Eva M. Clayton in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)