John Clopton (7 February 1756 – 11 September 1816) was a member of the US House of Representatives (DR-VA 13) from 4 March 1795 to 3 March 1799 (succeeding Samuel Griffin and preceding John Marshall) and from 4 March 1801 to 3 March 1803 (succeeding Littleton Waller Tazewell and preceding John Johns Trigg), from VA-22 from 4 March 1803 to 3 March 1813 (preceding Hugh Nelson), and from VA-23 from 4 March 1813 to 11 September 1816 (preceding John Tyler).
Biography[]
John Clopton was born in Tunstall, New Kent County, Virginia in 1756, and he became a lawyer. He served in the militia and was wounded at the Battle of Brandywine during the American Revolutionary War, and he went on to serve in the House of Delegates from 1789 to 1791 and in the US House of Representatives from 1795 to 1799 and from 1801 to 1816, dying in office.