George Henry Clinton

George Henry Clinton

Louisiana State Representative from Tensas Parish
In office 1908–1912
Preceded by	Harrison Stewart
Succeeded by	John Murdock
Louisiana State Senator for Concordia and Tensas parishes
In office 1912–1916
Preceded by	Charles C. Cordill
Succeeded by	Frank L. Guthrie
Louisiana State Senator for Concordia and Tensas parishes
In office 1920–1924
Preceded by	Frank L. Guthrie
Succeeded by	Clifford Cleveland Brooks Norris C. Williamson
Personal details
Born	Date of birth missing Natchez, Mississippi, USA
Died	Date and place of death missing
Political party	Democratic
Residence	St. Joseph, Tensas Parish Louisiana, USA
Alma mater	Chamberlain-Hunt Academy Louisiana State University
Occupation	Chemist; Lawyer
Religion	Episcopalian

George Henry Clinton was a chemist, lawyer, and Democratic politician from St. Joseph in Tensas Parish in the northeastern Mississippi River delta of the U.S. state of Louisiana.

Clinton was born in the late 1860s in Natchez in western Mississippi. His father was a native of East Feliciana Parish, one of the Florida Parishes of southeastern Louisiana. The senior Clinton served in the Confederate Army and became the district attorney for the Louisiana 6th Judicial District, based about St. Joseph, Tallulah in Madison Parish, and Lake Providence in East Carroll Parish. Clinton's mother was part of the Briscoe family of Claiborne County, Mississippi.^[1]

Clinton attended school in New Orleans and at the Chamberlain-Hunt Academy in Port Gibson, Mississippi, before he graduated in 1889 from Louisiana State University in Baton Rouge. Clinton worked as a sugar chemist in Louisiana, Cuba, and Mexico. In 1898, he began his legal practice in St. Joseph. Clinton served on the LSU Board of Supervisors.^[2]

He was a state representative from 1908 to 1912, having served alongside the cotton planter Samuel W. Martien of Waterproof in southern Tensas Parish.^[3] He was twice a state senator, from 1912 to 1916 and again from 1920 to 1924.^[4] Clinton also served on the Louisiana Board of Appraisers and was a director of the East Louisiana State Hospital. He was a member and president of the Tensas Parish School Board, based in St. Joseph, and a delegate to the 1913 and 1921 state constitutional conventions.^[2]

Nothing is known of Clinton after he left the state Senate in 1924. He is not buried in Legion Memorial Cemetery in Newellton nor is he listed at Natchez City Cemetery, the resting place of most whites in St. Joseph until the middle to late 1940s.

References

↑ Frederick W. Williamson and George T. Goodman, eds. Eastern Louisiana: A History of the Watershed of the Ouachita River and the Florida Parishes, 3 vols. (Monroe: Historical Record Association, 1939), pp. 1373-1375
1 2 James Matthew Reonas, Once Proud Princes: Planters and Plantation Culture in Louisiana's Northeast Delta, From the First World War Through the Great Depression (PDF). Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Ph.D. dissertation, December 2006, pp. 263-264. Retrieved July 19, 2013.
↑ "Membership of the Louisiana House of Representatives, 1812-2012: Tensas Parish" (PDF). legis.la.gov. Retrieved July 14, 2013.
↑ "Membership in the Louisiana State Senate, 1880-2012" (PDF). legis.state.la.us. Retrieved July 15, 2013.

Political offices
Preceded by Harrison Stewart	Louisiana State Representative from Tensas Parish George Henry Clinton 1908–1912	Succeeded by John Murdock
Preceded by Charles C. Cordill	Louisiana State Senator from Concordia and Tensas parishes George Henry Clinton 1912–1916	Succeeded by Frank L. Guthrie
Preceded by Frank L. Guthrie	Louisiana State Senator from Concordia and Tensas parishes George Henry Clinton 1920–1924	Succeeded by Clifford Cleveland Brooks Norris C. Williamson

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