Elected to the Senate in 1829 as its youngest member, he was an important voice in drafting his home state's Constitution two years later.
Elected to the Senate in 1829 as its youngest member, he was an important voice in drafting his home state's Constitution two years later. It was before construction finished on his grand estate Buena Vista that this man served as the Chief Justice of Delaware; a position he resigned to support the presidency of William H. Harrison. His greatest political triumph occurred during service as Zachary Taylor's Secretary of State and featured various disputes about the status of Honduras. For ten points, identify this American statesman whose name lives on in a treaty that guaranteed neutrality across the isthmus of Panama and was signed with his British counterpart Henry Bulwer.
Elected to the Senate in 1829 as its youngest member, he was an important voice in drafting his home state's Constitution two years later.
John M. {Clayton}