# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/william-clayton
# Generated: 2026-08-14T01:08:01.563Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/william-clayton"
name: "William Clayton"
slug: "william-clayton"
description: "William H. Clayton was a clerk, scribe, and friend to the religious leader Joseph Smith. Clayton, born in England, was also an American pioneer journalist, inventor, lyricist, and musician. He joined the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints in 1837 and served as the second counselor to the British mission president Joseph Fielding while proselyting in Manchester. He led a group of British converts in emigrating to the United States in 1840 and eventually settled in Nauvoo, Illinois, where he befriended Joseph Smith and became his clerk and scribe. He was a member of the Council of Fifty and Smith's private prayer circle."
tagline: "American Mormon leader (1814–1879)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/William_Clayton.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
birthDate: "1814-07-17"
deathDate: "1879-12-04"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           45.61
  momentum:             8.348837209302326
  historical:           4.828404
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     30
  profileCompleteness:  50
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%88%D9%8A%D9%84%D9%8A%D8%A7%D9%85_%D9%83%D9%84%D8%A7%D9%8A%D8%AA%D9%88%D9%86"
    title: "ويليام كلايتون"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Clayton_(Latter_Day_Saint)"
    title: "William Clayton (Latter Day Saint)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Clayton_(presbitero)"
    title: "William Clayton (presbitero)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Clayton"
    title: "William Clayton"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://musicbrainz.org/artist/54efc4ce-a9c1-4db9-bf17-67c6f0e002d6"
    title: "MusicBrainz"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q767459"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump