Albert Clayton Dalton (2 October 1867 – 24 March 1957) was a United States army officer.

[2] Dalton was also a graduate of the General Staff School (1920) and the U.S. Army War College (1921).

Dalton also took part in the Occupation of Veracruz (1914) and between 1916 and 1917 was stationed on the Mexican-United States border during the Pancho Villa Expedition.

Dalton was serving as a major at General Pershing's headquarters when the United States entered World War I in 1917, and from September to October of that year he organized the expeditionary depot in Philadelphia.

[2][4] Shortly following his retirement from the military, Dalton was appointed president of the United States Shipping Board Merchant Fleet Corporation.