David Clopton

David Clopton (September 29, 1820 – February 5, 1892) was an American politician who was member of the U.S. House of Representatives, the C.S. House of Representatives, a member of the Alabama Legislature, and associate judge of the Alabama Supreme Court. A member of the Democratic Party, he was also a veteran of the Confederate Army.

Early life Clopton was born in Putnam County, Georgia, near Milledgeville, Georgia, on September 29, 1820, a son of Alford Clopton (1787–1870) and his wife, Sarah “Sally” Clopton . He attended the county schools and Edenton Academy in Georgia, and moved to Alabama in 1844, graduating from Randolph–Macon College in 1840 and being admitted to the bar in 1841. In 1844, he moved to Tuskegee. and practiced law there.

Political career

U.S. House of Representatives Clopton represented Alabama's 3rd district in the United States House of Representatives as a Democrat beginning in 1859.

Civil War Clopton withdrew from the United States House of Representatives in 1861 and enlisted as a private in the Confederate Army in the Twelfth Alabama Infantry for one year. As part of a Macon County consortium, he contracted with the Alabama Salt Commission to manufacture salt in Saltville, Virginia.

Personal life On November 29, 1887 he married Virginia Tunstall Clay, widow of Clement Claiborne Clay.

Later life and death After the war, he served in the Alabama state legislature in 1878 and as an associate justice of the Alabama Supreme Court from 1884 until his death in Montgomery, Ala., February 5, 1892. He is buried in Oakwood Cemetery.