Claiborne

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Claiborne is a name with multiple meanings:

[edit] People

• Billy Claiborne -- western outlaw
• Corinne Claiborne Boggs -- Democrat; U.S. Representative from Louisiana; U.S. Ambassador to Vatican
• Hamilton C. Claiborne -- U.S. Consul
• Harry Claiborne -- Democrat; Member of Nevada state house of representatives
• James Robert Claiborne -- Democrat; U.S. Representative from Missouri
• John Claiborne -- Republican Congressman
• John Francis Hamtramck Claiborne -- Member of Mississippi state legislature
• John Herbert Claiborne -- surgeon and physicist
• John Marshall Claiborne -- Member of Texas state senate
• Nathaniel Herbert Claiborne -- Member of Virginia state legislature, U.S. Representative from Virginia
• Stephen Claiborne - writer
• Thomas Claiborne (1749-1812) -- Democrat; Member of Virginia state legislature; U.S. Representative from Virginia
• Thomas Claiborne (1780-1856) -- Democrat; Lawyer; member of Tennessee state house of representatives; U.S. Representative from Tennessee
• William Claiborne (c.1600-1676), Virginias statesman
• William Charles Cole Claiborne -- U.S. Representative from Tennessee and first governor of the State of Louisiana
• Claiborne P. Ellis -- Ku Klux Klan member turned civil rights activist
• Claiborne de Borda Pell -- Senator from Rhode Island
• Herbert Claiborne Pell, Jr. -- United States Ambassador to Portugal
• Robert Claiborne (1919-1990) -- American folk-singer, labor organizer and writer of books on Science, Anthropology and Linguistics.

[edit] Places

• Claiborne Farm is a prominent thoroughbred race horse breeding farm in Paris, Kentucky
• Claiborne Parish, Louisiana
• Claiborne, Alabama

[edit] Other

• Dolores Claiborne -- novel by Stephen King