Frederick Albert Clinton (March 1, 1834 - September 21, 1890) was a delegate to the 1868 South Carolina Constitutional Convention, state legislator, trial justice, and militia officer. He represented Lancaster County, South Carolina in the South Carolina Senate from 1868 to 1877. He was a Republican.Freedom's Lawmakers by Eric Foner, Louisiana State University Press (1996) pages 46 and 47
Before the American Civil War he was enslaved by Ervin (or Irvin) Clinton, a lawyer. In November 1870, P. B. Tompkins contested his election.
Isom Caleb Clinton, his older brother, was a bishop who assisted in founding the Mount Carmel A.M.E. Zion Church in Lancaster County. The Lancaster Ledger ran an obituary for him. Frederick Albert Clinton is buried in the graveyard on the church and campground's north side.South Carolina Green Book
See also African American officeholders from the end of the Civil War until before 1900
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