Henry Clifton Jr. ’31

Henry Clifton Jr. died Jan. 10, 1998, in NYC. He had been a cum laude graduate of the William Penn Charter School in Philadelphia, and he graduated Phi Beta Kappa from Princeton. He took his law degree from Harvard Law School in 1934 and practiced labor relations law in NYC until commissioned in the Navy in 1942, assigned as labor relations officer ashore. He was discharged in 1946 with the rank of commander, with Commendation Ribbon.

Henry then resumed practice of law in NYC and founded firms bearing his name as partner, currently Clifton, Budd, and Di Maria. He represented many major employers. He was a founder of the labor law section of the A.B.A., and for 20 years served the American Arbitration Assn. as director, executive committeeman, and chairman of its practice committee. He was awarded the Whitney North Seymour medal for his work in promotion of arbitration.

Henry is survived by his widow, Loretta M.; by two children from his 1951 marriage to Ruth Patricia Marder, Jane Elizabeth Dockery and Henry Stephen; and by two grandchildren, Kristen and Jacqueline Burke, to whom the class extends its sincere sympathy.

The Class of 1931