Background
Hill, John Boynton Philip Clayton was born on May 2, 1879 in Annapolis, Maryland, United States. Son of Charles Ebenezer and Kate Watts (Clayton) Hill.
Hill, John Boynton Philip Clayton was born on May 2, 1879 in Annapolis, Maryland, United States. Son of Charles Ebenezer and Kate Watts (Clayton) Hill.
Bachelor of Arts, Johns Hopkins University, 1900. Bachelor of Laws, Harvard University, 1903.
Practiced at Boston, 1903-1904, Baltimore and Washington, 1904-1917. Was member Hill, Randall & Leser (withdrew from firm, 1925, because of congressional duties). Resumed practice, 1927, Howe, Hill & Bradley, later Hill, Ross & Hill, Baltimore, Washington and New New York
United State Attorneys District Maryland, 1910-1915.
Counsel for Baltimore and State Maryland in New Jersey.N.Y. Lighterage, Boston, Baltimore and Philadelphia Differential cases. 1930-1933; special counsel State Maryland in Albany Portuguese Differential.
President Artesian Water Company. Republican nominee Congress, 4th Maryland.
District, 1908; Republican candidate for nomination for mayor of Baltimore, 1915.
Private Battery A, Massachusetts V.M., 1904. Second lieutenant, First lieutenant, captain 4th Infantry, Maryland. National Guard; military observer 11th German Army Corps maneuvers, September 1911.
Major, judge advisory general, Maryland.
National Guard, 1910-1917. Judge advisory 15th Division Mexican border service, August 26-December 15, 1916.
Active duty, August 3, 1917. Member of staff, 29th Division, August 25, 1917-December 10, 1918, then judge advisory and assistant G-3, General Staff, 8th Army Corps, American Expeditionary Force, until its dissolution.
Liaison officer 17th French Army Corps during offensive north of Verdun, October 1918.
Promoted lieutenant colonel, October 22, 1918.
Served in defense of center sector, Haute Alsace, July 25-September 23, and Meuse-Argonne offensive, north of Verdun, October 8-30, 1918. Member American Battle Monuments Commission. Member Maryland. Tercentenary Commission, 1934.
Member 67th Congress (1921-1923), 3d Maryland.
Married Suzanne Howell, daughter Children: Suzanne Carroll Clayton (Mistress Phillips Huntington Clarke), Elise Bancroft Clayton, Catherine Coleman Clayton.
