Clinton is a village in Oneida County, New York, United States. The population was 1,942 at the 2010 census, declining to 1,684 in the 2020 census, 13% decline. It was named for George Clinton, the fi
Center of Clinton, and starting point for street numbers, at College Street and West Park Row
Gazebo in the Clinton Village green
Kirkland Town Library in Clinton
Clinton Cider Mill, a local institution
Elihu Root
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Elihu Root was an American lawyer, Republican politician, and statesman who served as the 41st United States Secretary of War under presidents William McKinley and Theodore Roosevelt and the 38th Unit
Clinton, Oneida County, New York
…two clothing works, a worsted factory, a grist mill, three churches (Universalist, Baptist, and Congregational), two academies, and two seminaries. Elihu Root, Secretary of State under President McKinley and Secretary of War under presidents McKinley and Roosevelt, was born in a building on the Hamilton College…
Portrait by George Prince, 1902
Though Root avoided politics to the extent possible, his relationship with President Chester A. Arthur culminated in appointment as U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York.
A Bob Satterfield cartoon depicts the forced retirement of Commanding General Nelson A. Miles.
Root and his successor, William Howard Taft, c. 1904