Clayton, Henry D., House
a.k.a. Clayton Plantation
1 mi. S of Clayton off AL 30, Clayton, ALHenry D. Clayton, according to his biographer Hallie Farmer, was "largely responsible for the amendment to the Sherman anti-trust law which bears his name." 1 Although the Clayton Act did not prove as effective as its sponsor had hoped—because of vagueness resulting chiefly from Senate amendments and because of the attitude of the Federal Trade Commission set up to enforce it—this measure, says distinguished historian Harold U. Faulkner, "represented the firm belief that the Sherman Act had failed and that further federal legislation was necessary if monopoly was to be prevented."2 In addition, the Clayton Act, along with the bill creating the Federal Trade Commission, marked achievement of a major statutory goal of Woodrow Wilson's "new freedom."
Local significance of the building:Listed in National Register of Historic Places in 1976.
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