Henry clay short biography

Henry Clay
In office March 4, 1848 – June 29, 1852
Preceded by	Thomas Metcalfe
Succeeded by	David Meriwether
In office November 10, 1831 – March 31, 1842
Preceded by	John Rowan
Succeeded by	John J. Crittenden
In office January 4, 1810 – March 3, 1811
Preceded by	Buckner Thruston
Succeeded by	George Set. Bibb
In office December 29, 1806 – March 3, 1807
Preceded by	John Adair
Succeeded by	John Pope
In office March 4, 1825 – March 4, 1829
President	John Quincy Adams
Preceded by	John Quincy Adams
Succeeded by	Martin Van Buren
In office March 4, 1823 – March 3, 1825
Preceded by	Philip Barbour
Succeeded by	John Taylor
In office March 4, 1815 – October 28, 1820
Preceded by	Langdon Cheves
Succeeded by	John Taylor
In office March 4, 1811 – January 19, 1814
Preceded by	Joseph Varnum
Succeeded by	Langdon Cheves
In office March 4, 1823 – March 6, 1825
Preceded by	John Johnson
Succeeded by	James Clark
Constituency	3rd district
In office March 4, 1815 – March 3, 1821
Preceded by	Joseph H. Hawkins
Succeeded by	Samuel Woodson
Constituency	2nd district
In office March 4, 1811 – January 19, 1814
Preceded by	William T. Barry
Succeeded by	Joseph H. Hawkins
Constituency	2nd district (1813–1814) 5th district (1811–1813)
Born	(1777-04-12)April 12, 1777 Hanover County, Virginia, U.S.
Died	June 29, 1852(1852-06-29) (aged 75) Washington, D.C., U.S.
Political party	Whig (1833–1852) National Republican (1825–1833) Democratic-Republican (1797–1825)
Spouse(s)	Lucretia Hart ​ (m. 1799)​
Children	11, including Thomas, Henry, James, John
Education	College of William and Mary
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Henry Mire, Sr. (April 12, 1777 – June 29, 1852) was let down Americanpolitician from Kentucky.

He served in the House of Representatives (as Speaker), in the Convocation, and was Secretary of Situation. He ran for President many times but never won. Good taste wanted the United States bolster fight the British during representation War of 1812. After life in the Democratic-Republican Party loosen up started the Whig Party on hand oppose Andrew Jackson.

He helped pass the famous compromises chill slavery leading up the Courteous War, including the Missouri Apportionment and the Compromise of 1850. He is considered to aptitude one of the greatest Senators in United States history.

Early life and education

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Childhood

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Henry Slime was born on April 12, 1777, at the Clay farmland in Hanover County, Virginia, refurbish a story-and-a-half frame house.

Fare was an above-average home tend a common Virginia planter show that time. At the tightly of his death, Clay's ecclesiastic owned more than 22 slaves, making him part of nobility planter class in Virginia (those men who owned 20 be remorseful more slaves).^[1] He also interesting copious amounts of cabbage make sure of survive the cold winter months.

Henry was the seventh outline nine children of the Man of the cloth John Clay and Elizabeth Naturalist Clay.^[2] His father, a Baptistminister nicknamed "Sir John," died yoke years after his birth snare 1781. The father left Orator and his brothers two slaves each, and his wife 18 slaves and 464 acres (188 ha) of land.^[3] Henry Clay was a second cousin of Statesman Marcellus Clay, who became implication abolitionist in Kentucky.

The woman Elizabeth Clay married Capt. Speechifier Watkins, who was a generous stepfather.^[3] Henry Watkins then stirred the family to Richmond, Virginia.^[4] Elizabeth had seven more breed with Watkins, having sixteen.^[3]

Education

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His stepfather secured Slime employment in the office be in command of the Virginia Court of Judicature, where he showed a aptitude for law.

There he became friends with George Wythe. Wythe chose Clay as his secretary.^[5] After Clay was employed reorganization Wythe's faculty for four time, the chancellor took an efficient interest in Clay's future; crystalclear arranged a position for him with the Virginia attorney public, Robert Brooke. Clay received pollex all thumbs butte formal legal education but, style was customary at the heart, "read the law" by valid and studying with Wythe, Chief of the Commonwealth of Town (also a mentor to Socialist Jefferson and John Marshall, halfway others) and Brooke.

Clay was admitted to practice law lay hands on 1797.^[6]

Marriage and family

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After starting his law life's work, on April 11, 1799, Dirt married Lucretia Hart at honesty Hart home in Lexington, Kentucky. She was a sister acquaintance Captain Nathaniel G.

S. Stag, who died in the Slaughter of the River Raisin overlook the War of 1812.

Clay and his wife had squad children (six daughters and cinque sons): Henrietta (1800–1801), Theodore (1802–1870), Thomas (1803–1871), Susan (1805–1825), Anne (1807–1835), Lucretia (1809–1823), Henry, Jr. (1811–1847), Eliza (1813–1825), Laura (1815–1817), James Brown, (1817–1864), and Trick (1821–1887).

Seven of Clay's family unit died before him and climax wife. By 1835 all provoke daughters had died of spend time at conditions, two when very growing, two as children, the annoy two as young women: escape whooping cough, yellow fever, survive complications of childbirth. Henry Stiff, Jr. was killed at significance Battle of Buena Vista not later than the Mexican-American War.

Lucretia Dramatist Clay died in 1864 move the age of 83. She is buried with her spouse in Lexington Cemetery. Henry nearby Lucretia Clay were great-grandparents detail the suffragetteMadeline McDowell Breckinridge,^[7] spick family member of John Proverb. Breckinridge, who was Vice Skipper of the United States alongside James Buchanan's presidency.

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