Caleb R. Layton

Caleb Rodney Layton (* September 8, 1851 in Frankford, Delaware, † November 11, 1930 in Georgetown, Delaware ) was an American politician. Between 1919 and 1923 he represented the State of Delaware in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Caleb Layton was born on a farm in Sussex County. He attended the common schools and the Georgetown Academy. Then he studied until 1873 at Amherst College in Massachusetts. After studying medicine at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia, he began in Georgetown to work as a doctor.

Layton was a member of the Republican Party. Between 1876 and 1888 he was on the board of the party in his district and from 1896 to 1901 he was chairman of the party there. In the years 1896, 1900 and 1904 was Layton delegate to the respective Republican National Conventions, to which the party nominated William McKinley and Theodore Roosevelt as a presidential candidate. Between 1897 and 1905 he also published the newspaper " Union Republican ".

From 1901 to 1905 Layton was managing as Secretary of State official of the Government of Delaware, and between 1906 and 1910 he was auditor in some federal ministries in Washington. In 1918 he was elected to the U.S. House of Representatives. There he entered on March 4, 1919, the successor to the Democrats Albert F. Polk, whom he had defeated in the elections. After a re-election in 1920, Layton was able to complete in Congress until March 3, 1923 two legislative sessions. In the elections of 1922 he was defeated by Democrat William H. Boyce. After the end of his time in Congress Layton again worked as a doctor in Georgetown. There he is also deceased in November 1930. He was married to Anna E. Sipple.