Background
Clements, Newton N. was born on December 23, 1837 in Tuscaloosa County, Alabama, United States.
Clements, Newton N. was born on December 23, 1837 in Tuscaloosa County, Alabama, United States.
Born in Tuscaloosa County, Alabama, Clements was graduated from the University of Alabama at Tuscaloosa in 1858. He studied law but never practiced.
He entered Harvard University in 1859. During the Civil War entered the Confederate States Army as a captain in the Twenty-sixth Alabama Regiment, afterward the Fiftieth Alabama Regiment. Successively promoted to major, lieutenant colonel, and colonel.
Clements was elected as a Democrat to the Forty-sixth Congress to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of Burwell B. Lewis and served from December 8, 1880, to March 3, 1881.
He was an unsuccessful candidate for renomination in 1880. Largely interested in planting and cotton manufactures.
He died in Tuscaloosa, Alabama, February 20, 1900. He was interred in Evergreen Cemetery.
During his time at the University, he became the first pledge member of the Sigma Alpha Epsilon fraternity. He served as member of the State house of representatives in 1870–1872 and 1874–1878, serving as speaker in 1876, 1877, and 1878.