Background
Freeman was born in Essex Junction, Vermont, on October 26, 1872.
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Clayton Eugene Freeman
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He graduated from Adams Academy and spent 20 years in the jewelry business in Boston.
Career
He moved to Massachusetts at the age of 17. He assisted in organizing the West. T. Grant chain of stores, eventually serving as the company"s president Freeman moved to New Jersey to organize the West. 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. Freeman served on the financial committee of the New Jersey Republican State Committee, and in 1937 he was selected by Lester H. Clee, Republican candidate for Governor of New Jersey that year, to be chairman of the State Committee.
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.
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Political Party
Republican party