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"[33] Clay presided at the founding meeting of the ACS on December 21, 1816, at the Davis Hotel in Washington, D.C. Attendees included Robert Finley, James Monroe, Bushrod Washington, Andrew Jackson, Francis Scott Key, and Daniel Webster.The "American System"[edit] Main article: American System (economic plan) Henry Clay and John C. Calhoun helped to pass the Tariff of 1816 as part of the national economic plan Clay called "The American System," rooted in Alexander Hamilton's American School. Clay was admitted to the bar to practice law in 1797.

Senator Henry S. Foote of Mississippi, who had suggested the creation of the Committee of Thirteen, later said, "Had there been one such man in the Congress of the United States as Henry Clay in 1860–'61 there would, I feel sure, have been no civil war. MEMORIAL ID 55636972_________________________________________________________Henry Clay, Sr. (April 12, 1777 – June 29, 1852) was an American lawyer, politician, and skilled orator who represented Kentucky in both the United States Senate and House of Representatives.

She is interred with her husband in the vault of his monument at the Lexington Cemetery.

By 1835 all six daughters had died of varying causes, two when very young, two as children, the other two as young women: from whooping cough, yellow fever, and complications of childbirth. Because Dupuy refused to return voluntarily to Kentucky, Clay had his agent arrest her. Dubbed the "Great Pacificator," Clay brokered important compromises during the Nullification Crisis and on the slavery issue. David Wilmot, a Northern congressman, had proposed preventing the extension of slavery into any of the new territory in a proposal referred to as the "Wilmot Proviso". [37]On January 29, 1850, Clay proposed a series of resolutions, which he considered to reconcile Northern and Southern interests, what would widely be called the Compromise of 1850. Clay originally intended the resolutions to be voted on separately, but at the urging of southerners he agreed to the creation of a Committee of Thirteen to consider the measures.

--Wikipedia Henry and Lucretia Clay were great-grandparents of the suffragette Madeline McDowell Breckinridge.

[22] In 1934, Rush D. Holt, Sr. was elected to the Senate at the age of 29; he waited until he turned 30 (on the following June 19) to take the oath of office. Dupuy's attorney gained an order from the court for her to remain in DC until the case was settled, and she worked for wages for 18 months for Martin Van Buren, the successor to Secretary of State and the Decatur House. He served three different terms as Speaker of the House of Representatives and was also Secretary of State from 1825 to 1829.

[20]When elected by the legislature, Clay was below the constitutionally required age of thirty.

[37] A more stringent Fugitive Slave Act. During his early House service, Clay strongly opposed the creation of a National Bank, in part because of his personal ownership in several small banks in his hometown of Lexington. Clay lost by a wide margin to the highly popular Jackson (55% to 37%).In 1840, Clay was a candidate for the Whig nomination, but he was defeated at the party convention by supporters of war hero William Henry Harrison. His age did not appear to have been noticed by any other Senator, and perhaps not by Clay. Clay opposed annexing Texas on the grounds that it would once again bring the issue of slavery to the forefront of the nation's political dialog and would draw the ire of Mexico, from which Texas had declared its independence in 1836.

Senators, along with Daniel Webster, John C. Calhoun, Robert La Follette, and Robert A.

Survivors included his daughters, During the Civil War, Russia came to the aid of the Union, threatening war against Britain and France if they officially recognized the Confederacy. Four major candidates, including Clay, sought the office of president.

Polk's populist stances on territorial expansion figured prominently—particularly his opinion on US control over the entire Oregon Country and his support for the annexation of Texas. There he became friends with George Wythe.

Clay granted Charles Dupuy his freedom in 1844. In 1890, after a destructive fire at his first facility, Parker built the Phoenix Foundry.

Having finished fourth, Clay was eliminated from contention; the top three were Andrew Jackson, John Quincy Adams and William H. Crawford. [7] His father, a Baptist minister nicknamed "Sir John," died four years after the boy's birth (1781). Henrico County, Province of Virginia. [3] Clay also advocated moving the state capitol from Frankfort to Lexington. Henry Watkins moved the family to Richmond, Virginia. She was imprisoned in Alexandria, Virginia, before Clay arranged for her transport to New Orleans, where he placed her with his daughter and son-in-law Martin Duralde. [18]First Senate appointment and eligibility[edit] Clay's influence in Kentucky state politics was such that in 1806 the Kentucky legislature elected him to the Senate seat of John Breckinridge.

The group was made up of both abolitionists from the North, who wanted to end slavery, and slaveholders, who wanted to deport free blacks to reduce what they considered a threat to the stability of slave society. On the "amalgamation" of the black and white races, Clay said that "The God of Nature, by the differences of color and physical constitution, has decreed against it. Even though the 1852 pro-slavery[43] novel Life at the South; or, "Uncle Tom's Cabin" As It Is, by W.L.G. [31]Before Clay's election as Speaker of the House, the position had been that of a rule enforcer and mediator.