A delegate from the Seventeenth District, the fifty-seven year old farmer lived in Fir on Puget Sound.
Born in Kentucky in 1832, Hayton was raised in that state and farmed there until 1862 when he entered the Union army. He moved to Missouri in 1868, and came to Washington Territory in 1876 to farm in Skagit county.
Hayton served on the following committees: State Institutions and Public Buildings; Agriculture, Manufacturing, Fisheries and Commerce.