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	Cassius Marcellus Clay (abolitionist) Biography and Summary
		Though he is known primarily for his abolitionism, his military and diplomatic exploits, and his flamboyant personal life and political career, Cassius Marcellus Clay also served briefly--and turbulently--as a journalist.
		Cassius Marcellus Clay, nicknamed "The Lion of Whitehall"(October 19, 1810 – July 22, 1903) was an emancipationist from Madison County, Kentucky, a much younger cousin of famous politician Henry Clay.
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	Cassius Marcellus Clay (abolitionist) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Cassius Marcellus Clay, nicknamed "The Lion of Whitehall" (October 19, 1810–July 22, 1903) was an emancipationist from Madison County, Kentucky, a much younger first cousin, once removed, of famous politician Henry Clay.
		Clay sponsored his friend Rev. John G. Fee's abolitionist ministry in Madison County, Kentucky, and indirectly contributed to Fee's founding of the town of Berea and of Berea College.
		Cassius M. Clay Freedom's Champion (Turner Publishing Company Keven McQueen, 2001), A look at the life of Cassius Clay by fellow Kentuckian, researcher, and former tour guide of Whitehall, Keven McQueen.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Cassius_Marcellus_Clay_(abolitionist) (503 words)

	KET White Hall Field Trip: Cassius M. Clay (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Cassius was born on October 19, 1810 to General Green Clay and his wife, Sallie (Lewis) Clay, at Clermont, their home in the Richmond area of Madison County, Kentucky.
		Cassius attended the Madison Seminary, St. Joseph's College in Bardstown, Transylvania University in Lexington, and then Yale, where in 1832 he was impressed by an anti-slavery speech by the abolitionist William Lloyd Garrison.
		Clay and the emancipationists (including his cousin, Kentucky Senator Henry Clay, the "Great Compromiser") hoped to maintain the law and the constitution while ridding the country of slavery by peaceful means.
	www.ket.org /trips/whitehall/clay_1.htm (722 words)

	Muhammad Ali - Printer-friendly - MSN Encarta
		Clay began boxing at the age of 12, after his bicycle was stolen and a police officer suggested that he learn how to box.
		As Clay continued to win over the next few years, he became more vocal about his successes, and he was given the nicknames Louisville Lip and Mighty Mouth.
		Clay was crowned the new world heavyweight champion and proclaimed himself The Greatest.
	ca.encarta.msn.com /text_761559538___2/Muhammad_Ali.html (343 words)

	KET's Underground Railroad - Glossary (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Cassius Clay read the manual and was so impressed that he urged Fee to spread his abolitionist views among the people of western Kentucky as these views became widely known, proslavery forces began to see the church and school as hated symbols.
		Cassius Clay was the son of General Green Clay one of the richest men in Kentucky.
		Clay urged recognition of South American republics by the United States in 1817 and was influential in framing the Missouri Compromise in 1820.
	www.ket.org /underground/history/glossary.htm (5079 words)

	Highbeam Encyclopedia - Search Results for Cassius (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Dio Cassius DIO CASSIUS [Dio Cassius] (Cassius Dio Cocceianus), c.155-235?, Roman historian and administrator, b.
		Clay, Cassius Marcellus CLAY, CASSIUS MARCELLUS [Clay, Cassius Marcellus] 1810-1903, American politician and diplomat, b.
		Cassius Clay, father of Muhammad ALI, in front of his house, where Muhammad had spent his youth.
	www.encyclopedia.com /articles/02393.html (529 words)

	CLAY, HENRY (1777–1852) - Online Information article about CLAY, HENRY (1777–1852)
		Another conspicuous feature of Clay's public career was his absorbing and rightful, but constantly ungratified, ambition to be president of the United States.
		In 1832 Clay was unanimously nominated for the presidency by the National Republicans; Jackson, by the Democrats.
		The result threw Clay into paroxysms of rage, and he violently complained that his friends always used him as their candidate when he was sure to be defeated, and betrayed him when he or any one could have been elected.
	encyclopedia.jrank.org /CHR_CLI/CLAY_HENRY_17771852_.html (3048 words)

	CASSIUS CLAY * DENNIS ALCAPONE (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Cassius Clay fought Sonny Liston in 1964 for the heavyweight title and forced Liston to retire after the sixth round.
		Wounded deeply, Clay grasped his knife and wrested it away from an attacker, cutting his own fingers to the bone, he then found Turner in the crowd and stabbed him.
		Another Turner tried to shoot Clay in the head, but the gun misfired, Clay's14-year-old son, handed him a pistol, but by then Cassius was beginning to lose consciousness from loss of blood.
	www.johnnyspencer.info /imagetexts16/cassiusclayDA.htm (295 words)

	Green Clay: Estill's Tycoon
		Clay was born on Aug. 14, 1757 in Powhatan County, Virginia to the same family that produced his more famous distant cousin, Henry Clay.
		Clay ran an advertisement in the Lexington Reporter on Oct.1, 1814, for taverns(Inns) to rent at the Estill Court House and the Sweet Spring (Estill Springs).
		One of his sons, Cassius Marcellus Clay, owner of White Hall mansion in Madison County, achieved fame as an abolitionist and served a term as ambassador to Imperial Russia.
	www.fewpb.net /~ralphbarnes/Clay.htm (1477 words)

	HighBeam Encyclopedia â“ Free Online Encyclopedia for Reference, Research, Facts
		CLAY, CASSIUS MARCELLUS [Clay, Cassius Marcellus] 1810-1903, American politician and diplomat, b.
		Madison co., Ky. Although he came from a slaveholding family, Clay early came to abhor the institution of slavery.
		His press was moved by his enemies to Cincinnati, and he continued its publication there and at Louisville.
	www.encyclopedia.com /printable.aspx?id=1E1:clay-cas (165 words)

	Order signed by Abraham Lincoln, April 8, 1862, authorizing and directing the Secretary of State of affix the Seal of ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Cassius Marcellus Clay, although a native of Kentucky, was a fervent abolitionist and strong supporter of the Republican party and Lincoln's campaign for president in 1860.
		Clay was appointed as ambassador to Russia in 1861, but was recalled in 1862 to accept the post of major general in the United States Army.
		Clay returned to Russia in 1863 and served as ambassador until 1869.
	ncrec.dcr.state.nc.us /Cat/CatServer.asp?WCI=MainEp&WCE=CatV1&WCU=510.21 (146 words)

	Untitled Document
		Muhammad Ali was born Cassius Marcellus Clay, the son of Marcellus Clay, a sign painter, and Odessa (Grady) Clay, a domestic worker.
		Though Liston was thought by many boxing experts to be invincible, the brash 22-year old Clay spent the weeks leading up to the fight entertaining reporters and fans with colorfully-worded promises of his impending victory.
		Shortly after the fight, Cassius Clay startled the sports world by announcing that he had joined the Nation of Islam and had changed his name to Muhammad Ali.
	www.theiconseries.com /portfolio/muhammad_ali_story.html (413 words)

	search.com - Muhammad Ali - Search.com Reference
		He was known as Cassius Clay, was twelve years old when he parked his bicycle in front of a Louisville department store.
		Among Clay's more impressive victories were against Sonny Banks (who knocked him down earlier in the bout), Alejandro Lavorante, and Archie Moore (a boxing legend who had won over 200 previous fights).
		In the opening rounds, Clay's speed kept him away from Liston's powerful head and body shots, as he used his height and reach advantage to effectively beat Liston to the punch with his jab.
	domainhelp.search.com /reference/Muhammad_Ali (3466 words)

	White Hall Body Frame
		The "old building," as Cassius Clay referred to his father's home, Clermont, was built in 1798-1799 in the Georgian-style.
		Clay wrote that the brick structure was "the first of that class" in the country.
		Mary Jane Clay, wife of Cassius Clay, supervised the construction of White Hall.
	www.kyrecreation.com /i75frames/whthall-body.htm (740 words)

	Lexington Cemetery - Notable People
		Mary Jane Warfield Clay was the wife of hot-headed abolitionist Cassius Marcellus Clay, Ambassador to Russia.
		Clay, like so many of the women of her time, did not live a life of idle luxury.
		Clay raised their large family, paid for the education of six children, managed her husband's farm, enlarged his mansion White Hall, and paid his debts.
	www.lexcem.org /index.cfm/hnotable.html?article_ID=7093C79E-2CDB-11D7-8011-0004AC4C1EA1 (218 words)

	Chapter Excerpt: Muhammad Ali by Matt Christopher (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Although this Cassius Clay inherited a large plantation and slaves from his father, he did not believe in slavery.
		Cassius Marcellus Clay, the politician, was outspoken in his opposition to slavery—so much so that on several occasions slavery supporters tried to kill him.
		Cassius heard about the show and, like any twelve-year-old, decided an afternoon of eating free popcorn and getting balloons would be fun.
	www.twbookmark.com /books/44/031610843X/chapter_excerpt20367.html (1934 words)

	Heritage of a Heavyweight
		They have noted that he was born on Jan. 18, 1942, the first son of Cassius Marcellus Clay Sr., a sign painter, and Odessa Grady Clay, and that he was given the name of his father.
		Some writers, pointing to the fact that one of the most notorious white men in 19th-century Kentucky was a firebrand abolitionist and gentleman-warrior named Cassius Marcellus Clay, have suggested that the Louisville boxer was a worthy successor to the name - and perhaps blood relation of the historical figure as well.
		Cassius and Odessa Clay, Muhammad Ali's parents, are now separated, but both of them still live in Louisville.
	partners.nytimes.com /books/98/10/25/specials/ali-heritage.html (4367 words)

	AAP Biography: Clay, C.M. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Kentucky free-labor advocate Cassius Marcellus Clay (1810-1903) inherited seventeen slaves and extensive farm acreage in 1828.
		As a Whig representative in the state legislature, Clay began expounding an economic indictment of slavery.
		Clay served as U.S. ambassador to Russia (1861-69) and remained active in Kentucky politics during and after Reconstruction.
	americanabolitionist.liberalarts.iupui.edu /clay.htm (153 words)

	University Press of Kentucky (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Laura Clay was the daughter of abolitionist Cassius Marcellus Clay and an important and controversial figure in the woman's rights movement.
		Clay's many important contributions to the struggle for women's rights have been overshadowed by her brief apostasy, when in the final months of the suffrage struggle, her states' rights convictions caused her to withdraw from NAWSA and support state rather than federal enfranchisement.
		Though she remained active in politics until her death in 1941, she is remembered most for her participation in the attempt to block ratification of the 19th Amendment in 1920.
	www.kentuckypress.com /viewbook.cfm?Group=48&ID=1087 (253 words)

	Clay Family Crest
		Clay is an ancient Norman name that arrived in England after the Norman Conquest of 1066.
		In continental Europe, the most ancient recorded family crest was discovered upon the monumental effigy of a Count of Wasserburg in the church of St. Emeran, at Ratisobon, Germany...
		In the Clay coat of arms as in all coat of arms the crest is only one element of the full armorial achievement.
	www.houseofnames.com /xq/asp.fc/qx/clay-family-crest.htm?a=54323-224 (547 words)

	CASSIUS MARCELLUS CLAY - ANNOTATED AUTOGRAPH QUOTATION SIGNED 1887
		CASSIUS M. Kentucky abolitionist and Minister to Russia.
		However, in a speech in Washington shortly after his return, Major General Clay declared that he would never fight while slavery was protected in the seceding states.
		Clay was U.S. Minister when the United States acquired Alaska from Russia in 1867, returning home in 1869.
	www.galleryofhistory.com /archive/8_2002/politicians/CASSIUS_MARCELLUS_CLAY.htm (212 words)

	Tarjomeh Free Radio Script Service
		It was on this date in 1964 that a twenty-two year old boxer named Cassius Marcellus Clay defeated Sonny Liston to become the heavyweight champion of the world.
		Like his boxing namesake, the original Cassius Marcellus Clay was born in Kentucky.
		That first Cassius Clay grew up to become a leading Abolitionist of the 19th century, and, like his cousin Senator Henry Clay, a politician.
	www.tarjomeh.com /radio/scripts/2002/022502.htm (192 words)

	Michael Moriarty - THE RAINBOW MAN, Part 2
		That he chose to concentrate on Ali instead of Malcolm X can be explained by a homeboy’s affinity for Lexington’s hometown hero, born Cassius Marcellus Clay, Jr.
		Howard Cosell takes up the other side of the Rainbow Dilemma but the interior problem — that is, what happened between Malcolm X and Ali — is what locks the book, forcing the reader to consider the moral ambivalence of the situation.
		Cassius Clay, Jr., thought that Allah told him to become Muhammad Ali — or that "it was written." Today, when asked about 9/11, Ali demurs.
	www.mmuuuhp.com /rainbow20606.htm (768 words)

	Search Results for "clay"
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	Random Works of the Web » Blog Archive » Cassius Marcellus Clay (abolitionist) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		The helpers who carried Clay away were astonished to find that Clay’s knife scabbard — which he kept strapped to his chest — had stopped Brown’s bullet.
		Clay was tried for mayhem and found not guilty.[1] [2]
		after his father, Cassius Marcellus Clay, Sr., who was named for the abolitionist.
	random.dragonslife.org /cassius-marcellus-clay-abolitionist/5025 (443 words)

	Transcript of a Letter From Moritz Pinner to Cassius Marcellus Clay (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Transcript of a Letter From Moritz Pinner (1828-1911) to Cassius Marcellus Clay (1810-1903) Dated October 9, 1862.
		Cassius Marcellus Clay Collection of The Abraham Lincoln Library and Museum at Lincoln Memorial University.
		Cassius Marcellus Clay (the namesake of the boxer that changed his name to Mohammed Ali) was a leading abolitionist, and like Pinner, a publisher of abolitionist newspapers.
	www.math.rutgers.edu /~zeilberg/family/clay.html (145 words)

	KY:Historical Society - Historical Marker Database - Search for Markers
		Cousin of John Clay, father of renowned Ky. statesman Henry Clay, and uncle of Cassius Marcellus Clay, famed Kentuckian of Civil War period.
		Daughter of Cassius M. Clay, Laura won coeducational, property, and joint guardianship rights for Ky. women and held key positions in National American Woman Suffrage Assn. Her associates included Susan B. Anthony.
		Fearless abolitionist, publisher of anti-slavery paper, The True American, captain in the Mexican War, legislator and Minister to Russia.
	kentucky.gov /kyhs/hmdb/MarkerSearch.aspx?mode=Subject&subject=50 (849 words)

	Cassius Marcellus Clay
		Ali, Muhammad - Ali, Muhammad (Cassius Clay) boxing Birthplace: Louisville, Ky. Born: 1/18/42 Information...
		Louisville, Ky. Born Cassius Marcellus Clay, he was...
		Odessa Lee Grady Clay, 77, mother of boxing legend Muhammad Ali, dies.
	www.infoplease.com /ce6/people/A0812474.html (263 words)

	Descendants of Green Clay
		: Brutus J. Clay, member of congress, married Amelia N. Annfield and their children were: Martha, Christopher, Green, Ezikial, and a Col. in the Confederacy.
		General Cassius M. Clay of the Union army, minister to Russia under four presidents, in 1832 married Mary Warfield and their children were: Green,Mary, Sarah, Brutus, Laura, and Annie.
		Under the influence of the abolitionist William Lloyd Garrison, Clay became an antislavery crusader, and, during his three terms in the Kentucky legislature (1835-40), he advocated gradual emancipation.
	members.tripod.com /~Claye/descendants_of_green_clay.htm (1430 words)

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