186:. Clanton entered government schools at the age of five in 1862. His father died when he was about nine years old leaving him, his mother, and his sisters, Elvina and P. A. He passed a high school entrance examination, but was denied entry to the white school, so he entered New Orleans University where he graduated with an A.B. on July 20, 1878. That December he was appointed instructor of mathematics at Leland University, then run by the
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