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Jim Clayton (Clayton Homes)
James L. "Jim" Clayton, Sr. (born 1934) is an American entrepreneur who founded Clayton Homes in 1966 and built it into the United States' largest producer and seller of manufactured housing, a publicly traded company that was sold to Berkshire Hathaway in 2003 for $1.7 billion.〔(The Ballad of Clayton Homes ), By Jennifer Reingold (Illustrations by Christian Clayton), ''Fast Company'', Issue 78, January 2004, Page 76〕
==Early life==
James L. Clayton was born in 1934 in Finger, Tennessee. His father was a sharecropper. As a child, he aspired to become a country music singer.〔 After high school he went to Memphis to attend college and perform in honky tonks.〔(James L. Clayton, Sr. ), The Horatio Alger Association website (accessed October 23, 2007)〕 After becoming ill at the end of the first year, he transferred〔 to the University of Tennessee in Knoxville, where he was a member of the Sigma Phi Epsilon fraternity〔 and received an engineering degree in 1957. He received a law degree from the University of Tennessee College of Law in 1964.〔(Remarks Of Sen. Alexander - James L. Clayton ), Senator Lamar Alexander, U.S. Senate, April 11, 2003〕
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