Clayton Eugene Freeman

Clayton Eugene Freeman (October 26, 1872 – August 31, 1959) was an American businessman and Republican Party politician who served as chairman of the New Jersey Republican State Committee.

Biography Freeman was born in Essex Junction, Vermont, on October 26, 1872.

He moved to Massachusetts at the age of 17. He graduated from Adams Academy and spent 20 years in the jewelry business in Boston. He assisted in organizing the W. T. Grant chain of stores, eventually serving as the company's president.

Freeman moved to New Jersey to organize the W. T. Grant chain there. He also served as a director of the Newark-based L. Bamberger & Company. He settled in Glen Ridge, where he became involved in the Essex County Republican organization, serving as the chairman of the county's Board of Chosen Freeholders. He declined a second term in the party chairmanship and was replaced by Howard Alexander Smith.

He died at his home in Glen Ridge, New Jersey, in 1959 at the age of 87.