General politician representative
Born in Woodstown, New Jersey on March 30, 1822, Clawson attended Delaware College, (Newark, Delaware) and Lafayette College (Easton, Pennsylvania, and graduated from Princeton College in 1840 and from the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine in 1843.
He commenced the practice of medicine in Woodstown. He was elected as an Opposition Party candidate to the Thirty-fourth Congress and reelected as a Republican to the Thirty-fifth Congress, serving in office from March 4, 1855 to March 3, 1859, but was not a candidate for renomination in 1858. After leaving Congress, he resumed the practice of medicine in Woodstown, where he died on October 9, 1879.
Interment in the Baptist Cemetery.
Opposition Party, Republican Party.
He served as a member of the New Jersey General Assembly in 1854.
