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.

George Henry Clinton
Louisiana State Representative for Tensas Parish
In office
1908–1912
Preceded byHarrison Stewart
Succeeded byJohn Murdock
Louisiana State Senator for Concordia and Tensas parishes
In office
1912–1916
Preceded byCharles C. Cordill
Succeeded byFrank L. Guthrie
Louisiana State Senator for Concordia and Tensas parishes
In office
1920–1924
Preceded byFrank L. Guthrie
Succeeded byClifford Cleveland Brooks
Norris C. Williamson
Personal details
BornDate of birth missing
Natchez, Mississippi, USA
DiedDate and place of death missing
Resting placeUnknown
Political partyDemocratic
Residence(s)St. Joseph, Tensas Parish
Louisiana, USA
Alma materChamberlain-Hunt Academy
Louisiana State University
OccupationChemist; Lawyer

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

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  1. ^ 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
  2. ^ a b 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. Archived from the original (PDF) on September 21, 2013. Retrieved July 19, 2013.
  3. ^ "Membership of the Louisiana House of Representatives, 1812-2012: Tensas Parish" (PDF). legis.la.gov. Archived from the original (PDF) on October 4, 2013. Retrieved July 14, 2013.
  4. ^ "Membership in the Louisiana State Senate, 1880-2012" (PDF). legis.state.la.us. Archived from the original (PDF) on April 4, 2019. 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 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