Note: This is just one of 1,325 family groupings listed on The Political Graveyard web site. These families each have three or more politician members, all linked together by blood, marriage or adoption.

This specific family group is a subset of the much larger Four Thousand Related Politicians group. An individual may be listed with more than one subset.

These groupings — even the names of the groupings, and the areas of main activity — are the result of a computer algorithm working with the data I have, not the choices of any historian or genealogist.

	Eleazer McComb (1740-1798) — of Dover, Kent County, Del.; Wilmington, New Castle County, Del. Born in Cumberland, Allegany County, Md., August 11, 1740. Served in the Continental Army during the Revolutionary War; merchant; Delegate to Continental Congress from Delaware, 1783-84; Delaware state auditor, 1787-93; bank director. Scotch-Irish ancestry. Died, from yellow fever, in Wilmington, New Castle County, Del., December, 1798 (age 58 years, 0 days). Interment at Wilmington and Brandywine Cemetery, Wilmington, Del.   Relatives: Married to Lydia Irons; father of Jeannette McComb (who married Thomas Clayton).   Political family: Clayton family of Dover, Delaware (subset of the Four Thousand Related Politicians).   See also congressional biography — Govtrack.us page — Wikipedia article — Find-A-Grave memorial
	Joshua Clayton (1744-1798) — of Delaware. Born in Cecil County, Md., July 20, 1744. Physician; served in the Continental Army during the Revolutionary War; Delaware state treasurer, 1786-89; President of Delaware, 1789-92; Governor of Delaware, 1793-96; U.S. Senator from Delaware, 1798; died in office 1798. Presbyterian. Died in Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, Pa., August 11, 1798 (age 54 years, 22 days). Original interment at a private or family graveyard, New Castle County, Del.; reinterment at Bethel Cemetery, Chesapeake City, Md.; cenotaph at Old Presbyterian Cemetery, Dover, Del.   Relatives: Son of Eleanor (Edinfield) Clayton and James Clayton; married to Rachel (McCleary) Bassett (adoptive daughter of Richard Bassett); father of Thomas Clayton; uncle of John Middleton Clayton; second great-granduncle of Clayton Douglass Buck.   Political families: DuPont-Bayard family of Wilmington, Delaware; Clayton family of Dover, Delaware (subsets of the Four Thousand Related Politicians).   See also congressional biography — Govtrack.us page — National Governors Association biography — Wikipedia article — Find-A-Grave memorial
	Richard Bassett (1745-1815) — of Dover, Kent County, Del. Born in Cecil County, Md., April 2, 1745. Lawyer; member of Delaware state legislative council from Kent County, 1776-80, 1782-83; served in the Continental Army during the Revolutionary War; member of Delaware state senate, 1782; member of Delaware house of assembly, 1786; member, U.S. Constitutional Convention, 1787; U.S. Senator from Delaware, 1789-93; common pleas court judge in Delaware, 1793-99; Governor of Delaware, 1799-1801; Judge of U.S. Court of Appeals for the 3rd Circuit, 1801-02. Methodist. Slaveowner. Died in Cecil County, Md., September 15, 1815 (age 70 years, 166 days). Original interment somewhere in Cecil County, Md.; reinterment in 1865 at Wilmington and Brandywine Cemetery, Wilmington, Del.   Relatives: Son of Arnold Bassett and Judith (Thompson) Bassett; married, December 22, 1774, to Ann Ennals; adoptive father of Rachel McCleary Bassett (who married Joshua Clayton); father of Ann Nancy Bassett (who married James Asheton Bayard Sr.); grandfather of Richard Henry Bayard (1796-1868) and James Asheton Bayard Jr.; granduncle of Thomas Clayton; great-grandfather of Thomas Francis Bayard Sr.; second great-grandfather of Thomas Francis Bayard Jr.; third great-grandfather of Thomas Francis Bayard III and Alexis Irenee du Pont Bayard; fourth great-grandfather of Richard Henry Bayard (born c.1949); first cousin thrice removed of John Sluyter Wirt.   Political families: DuPont-Bayard family of Wilmington, Delaware; Clayton family of Dover, Delaware (subsets of the Four Thousand Related Politicians).   See also congressional biography — Govtrack.us page — federal judicial profile — National Governors Association biography — Wikipedia article — Find-A-Grave memorial
	Thomas Clayton (1777-1854) — of Dover, Kent County, Del. Born in Massey, Kent County, Md., July, 1777. Lawyer; member of Delaware state house of representatives, 1802-06, 1810, 1812-13; member of Delaware state senate, 1808, 1808, 1821; secretary of state of Delaware, 1808-10; Delaware state attorney general, 1810-15; U.S. Representative from Delaware at-large, 1815-17; U.S. Senator from Delaware, 1824-27, 1837-47; common pleas court judge in Delaware, 1828; superior court judge in Delaware, 1832. Presbyterian. Slaveowner. Died in New Castle, New Castle County, Del., August 21, 1854 (age 77 years, 0 days). Interment at Old Presbyterian Cemetery, Dover, Del.   Relatives: Son of Joshua Clayton and Rachel Bassett (McCleary) Clayton; married to Jeannette McComb (daughter of Eleazer McComb); grandnephew of Richard Bassett; first cousin of John Middleton Clayton; first cousin thrice removed of Clayton Douglass Buck; second cousin of Richard Henry Bayard (1796-1868) and James Asheton Bayard Jr.; second cousin once removed of Thomas Francis Bayard Sr.; second cousin twice removed of Thomas Francis Bayard Jr.; second cousin thrice removed of Thomas Francis Bayard III and Alexis Irenee du Pont Bayard; second cousin four times removed of Richard Henry Bayard (born c.1949); third cousin once removed of John Sluyter Wirt.   Political families: DuPont-Bayard family of Wilmington, Delaware; Clayton family of Dover, Delaware (subsets of the Four Thousand Related Politicians).   See also congressional biography — Govtrack.us page — Wikipedia article — Find-A-Grave memorial
	John Middleton Clayton (1796-1856) — also known as John M. Clayton — of Dover, Kent County, Del.; New Castle, New Castle County, Del. Born in Dagsboro, Sussex County, Del., July 24, 1796. Lawyer; member of Delaware state house of representatives from Kent County, 1824; secretary of state of Delaware, 1826-28; U.S. Senator from Delaware, 1829-36, 1845-49, 1853-56; resigned 1836, 1849; died in office 1856; justice of Delaware state supreme court, 1837-39; U.S. Secretary of State, 1849-50. Slaveowner. Died in Dover, Kent County, Del., November 9, 1856 (age 60 years, 108 days). Interment at Old Presbyterian Cemetery, Dover, Del.   Relatives: Son of James George Clayton and Sarah (Middleton) Clayton; married, September 13, 1822, to Sally Ann Fisher; nephew of Joshua Clayton; great-granduncle of Clayton Douglass Buck; first cousin of Thomas Clayton.   Political family: Clayton family of Dover, Delaware (subset of the Four Thousand Related Politicians).   Clayton County, Iowa is named for him.   The World War II Liberty ship SS John M. Clayton (built 1942 at Terminal Island, California; bombed 1945; repaired; renamed USS Harcourt; scrapped 1962) was originally named for him.   See also congressional biography — Govtrack.us page — Wikipedia article — NNDB dossier — Find-A-Grave memorial