George Perkins Clinton

George Perkins Clinton (7 May 1867 – 13 August 1937) was an American botanist, mycologist, and plant pathologist who for thirty-five years worked at the Connecticut Agricultural Experiment Station at New Haven. An expert on smuts and rusts, he was a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Clinton was born in Polo, Illinois, and earned a B.S. and M.S. at the University of Illinois, followed by an M.S. and Sc.D. at Harvard.

Clinton coworked with Arthur Bliss Seymour and Franklin Sumner Earle editing the exsiccata series Economic fungi, A. B. Seymour and F. S. Earle. Supplement C. Ustilagineae (1903-1905).

The standard author abbreviation G.P.Clinton is used to indicate this person as the author when citing a botanical name.