# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/thomas-clayton
# Generated: 2026-08-14T00:12:29.846Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/thomas-clayton"
name: "Thomas Clayton"
slug: "thomas-clayton"
description: "Thomas Clayton was an American lawyer and politician from Dover in Kent County, Delaware. He was a member of the Federalist Party and later the National Republican Party and the Whig Party. He served in the Delaware General Assembly, as Attorney General of Delaware, as Secretary of State of Delaware, as Chief Justice of the Delaware Supreme Court, as U.S. Representative from Delaware, and as U.S. Senator from Delaware. In 1846 he was one of two members of the United States Senate to vote against declaring war on Mexico."
tagline: "American politician (1777-1854)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Thomas_Clayton_US.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
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  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Politicians"
  slug: "politicians"
profileType:
  name: "Politician"
  slug: "politician"
birthDate: "1777-07-01"
deathDate: "1854-08-21"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           41.96
  momentum:             2.5
  historical:           8.075342666666666
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     50.00000000000001
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "Thomas Clayton"
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    title: "توماس كلايتون"
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    title: "توماس کلیتون"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Thomas Clayton"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Clayton"
    title: "Thomas Clayton"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AA%D9%88%D9%85%D8%A7%D8%B3_%DA%A9%D9%84%DB%8C%D8%AA%D9%88%D9%86"
    title: "توماس کلیتون"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Clayton_(homme_politique)"
    title: "Thomas Clayton (homme politique)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://he.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D7%AA%D7%95%D7%9E%D7%90%D7%A1_%D7%A7%D7%9C%D7%99%D7%99%D7%98%D7%95%D7%9F"
    title: "תומאס קלייטון"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump