Creighton was born on a farm in Wayne County, Illinois on November 29, 1865, and went to the public schools.

[1] He went to the Hayward Collegiate Institute in Fairfield, Illinois and then taught school.

Creighton practiced law in Fairfield, Illinois.

[1] Creighton died in a hospital in Evansville, Indiana on November 2, 1942.

This article about a Member of the Illinois House of Representatives is a stub.