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	Henry Clay - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Henry Clay (April 12, 1777 in Hanover County, Virginia, USA – June 29, 1852 in Washington, D.C.) was a leading American statesman and orator who served in both the House of Representatives and Senate.
		Henry Clay's presidential bids were lost by wide margins, representing in his earlier presidential bids a failure to form a national coalition and a lack of political organization that could match the Jacksonian Democrats.
		Henry Clay is cited in Orison Marden's masterpiece "Pushing to the Front" as a sterling American success story, beginning his career as an orator speaking before a cow and a horse in his family barn.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Henry_Clay (3186 words)

	Today in History: June 29
		Clay lost two presidential elections as the Whig Party candidate and was frustrated of his party's nomination on several other occasions, yet he remained a guiding force in American political life, exercising leadership of his party in both the House and the Senate.
		With orators Daniel Webster and Stephen Douglas, Clay argued pleadingly for tolerance among factions and for the preservation of the Union.
		The Henry Clay Family Papers are in the custody of the Library of Congress Manuscript Division.
	memory.loc.gov /ammem/today/jun29.html (1035 words)

	Henry Clay
		Henry Clay was born in Hanover County, Virginia, on April 12, 1777.
		Henry Clay had the distinction of also serving as a member of the U.S. House of Representatives from 1811 to 1821 and from 1823 to 1825; he was Speaker of the House from 1811 to 1820.
		Clay was author of the Missouri Compromise of 1820 and the Compromise of 1850.
	www.aoc.gov /cc/art/nsh/clay.cfm (231 words)

	Clay, Henry. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05
		In 1810 Clay was elected to the U.S. House of Representatives and served (1811–14) as speaker.
		Earlier Clay had publicly opposed the annexation of Texas, and he restated his position in the Alabama letters,” agreeing to annexation if it could be accomplished with the common consent of the Union and without war.
		Clay denounced the extremists in both North and South, asserted the superior claims of the Union, and was chiefly instrumental in shaping the Compromise of 1850.
	www.bartleby.com /65/cl/Clay-Hen.html (986 words)

	Henry Clay Frick - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Henry Clay Frick (December 19, 1849 – December 2, 1919) was an American industrialist and art patron.
		Frick was born on 19 December 1849 in West Overton, Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania.
		By 1905, Henry Clay Frick's business, social, and artistic interests had shifted from Pittsburgh to New York.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Henry_Clay_Frick (797 words)

	Henry Clay - Voyager, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Henry Clay (April 12, 1777 in Hanover County, Virginia – June 29, 1852 in Washington, D.C.) was an American statesman and orator who served in both the House of Representatives and Senate.
		Henry Clay was only twenty-two, when, as an opponent of slavery, he vainly urged an emancipation clause for the new constitution of Kentucky.
		Clay complained that his friends always used him as their candidate when he was sure to be defeated, and betrayed him when he or anyone could have been elected.
	www.voyager.in /Henry_Clay (2237 words)

	Henry Clay (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		By 1812 Clay had been elected to seven terms in the Kentucky state legislature, had completed two unexpired terms in the U.S. Senate, and was the owner of a prosperous 600-acre estate known as "Ashland", where he lived with his wife, Lucretia Hart, and their 11 children.
		As Speaker of the House, Clay pushed the United States into the War of 1812, and he served as a member of the commission that negotiated with Britain the Treaty of Ghent for ending the war.
		Clay earned the nickname "Great Pacificator" for promoting the Missouri Compromise, the 1820 legislation that successfully eased the nation's tensions over the volatile issue of extending slavery for 30 more years.
	civilwar.bluegrass.net /secessioncrisis/henryclay.html (348 words)

	Lincoln's Eulogy on Henry Clay
		Clay, it is less necessary than most others; for his biography has been written and re-written, and read, and re-read, for the last twenty-five years; so that, with the exception of a few of the latest incidents of his life, all is as well known, as it can be.
		Clay's official life, in 1803, to the end of it in 1852, is but one year short of half a century; and that the sum of all the intervals in it, will not amount to ten years.
		Clay, though not unknown, was still a young man. Whether we should go to war with Great Britain, being the question of the day, a minority opposed the declaration of war by Congress, while the majority, though apparently inclining to war, had, for years, wavered, and hesitated to act decisively.
	showcase.netins.net /web/creative/lincoln/speeches/clay.htm (4157 words)

	Unit 3: Abolition and the Civil War
		Clay was an ardent nationalist and had worked diligently to preserve the Union throughout his thirty-year career in the House and the Senate.
		Clay would most likely have hoped that his "presidential" portrait would have communicated to voters his fairness, his devotion to the Union, and his ability to mediate between opposing sides of an issue.
		Clay brokered a compromise that allowed California to be admitted as a free state, while the territories of New Mexico and Utah were organized with the slave question left open.
	www.npg.si.edu /edu/brush/guide/unit3/statemn.html (1213 words)

	Encyclopedia :: encyclopedia : Henry Clay Frick (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Henry Clay Frick was an industrialist, and was very successful in his lifetime.
		Anarchist Alexander Berkman decided to kill Henry Clay Frick because of Frick's calling in Pinkerton detectives who killed several striking miners.
		His lover Emma Goldman decided to prostitute herself to earn the money needed to arm him, but was sent home untouched by her first client with the $10 that was used to purchase the gun.
	www.hallencyclopedia.com /Henry_Clay_Frick (506 words)

	Henry Clay (1777-1852) and Lucretia Hart
		Clay was the widow of John Morrison Clay, the youngest son of Kentucky's famous statesman, Henry Clay.
		Clay, Lexington loses perhaps the most remarkable woman of her generation, a writer of prose and poetry, a successful business woman, fearless and intrepid in spirit, brilliant in mind and admired for beauty, wit and all the womanly graces as well.
		Clay was closely interwoven with the Henry Clay family as her first husband, Col. Erwin, whom she met while on a trip to California, was the son of Henry Clay's fifth child, Anne Clay, his father being James Erwin of New Orleans.
	millennium.fortunecity.com /sesame/453/hclay.htm (16112 words)

	From Revolution to Reconstruction: Biographies: Henry Clay: An Introduction
		Clay wouldn't have taken the rash actions Jackson did against the Bank of the United States which thrashed the currency and credit of the nation and played a large contributing factor in the depression of the late 1830s and early 1840s.
		Clay narrowly lost to James K. Polk in 1844, and this was an election that he should have won and has the most personal responsibilty in for his own defeat, though he was disgracefully and unfairly slandered by his opposition.
		Clay was the first American to lie in state in the capital rotunda, and over the next two weeks his body was carried from city to city in a grand procession that was a precursor of Lincoln's funeral.
	odur.let.rug.nl /~usa/B/hclay/hclay.htm (4259 words)

	Ashland: The Henry Clay Estate, Lexington, KY (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Henry Clay began his political career in 1803 when he was elected to the Kentucky General Assembly.
		Clay’s was to be a major voice in the troubled years in American-British relations from 1808-1814.
		Perhaps Henry Clay’s greatest honor was the post mortem one he received when a great majority of American historians honored him as having been one of the greatest United States Senators.
	www.henryclay.org /hc.htm (1029 words)

	Clay, Henry on Encyclopedia.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		He served (1803-6) in the Kentucky legislature and was (1805-7) professor of law at Transylvania Univ. Having spent the short session of 1806-7 in the U.S. Senate, he returned (1807) to the state legislature, became (1808) speaker, and remained there until he was chosen to fill an unexpired term (1810-11) in the U.S. Senate.
		In 1810 Clay was elected to the U.S. House of Representatives and served (1811-14) as speaker.
		Earlier Clay had publicly opposed the annexation of Texas, and he restated his position in the "Alabama letters," agreeing to annexation if it could be accomplished with the common consent of the Union and without war.
	www.encyclopedia.com /html/C/Clay-H1en.asp (1206 words)

	Ashland-Lexington, Kentucky -- National Register of Historic Places Travel Itinerary
		Clay was a U.S. Senator from Kentucky, and served as the Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives, the Secretary of State,and also made three unsuccessful bids for the presidency, narrowly losing in his last attempt.
		Clay's son razed the structure in 1857 and rebuilt the home on its original foundation, replicating the original design, which has been little altered since.
		Ashland, the Henry Clay Estate, a National Historic Landmark, is located adjacent to the Ashland Park Historic District on Sycamore Rd. off of East Main St. (Richmond Rd.), and is now a house museum.
	www.cr.nps.gov /nr/travel/lexington/ahc.htm (400 words)

	Ashland: The Henry Clay Estate, Lexington, KY (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The Clays delighted in the pleasure that the grounds near the house provided to their guests, and Henry Clay frequently invited travelers to visit his farm and grounds.
		Clay was very interested in stock breeding and imported pure bred stock, particularly sheep and cattle, from all over the world.
		Henry McDowell died in 1899, and in 1915, the McDowell's daughter, Nannette, and her husband Dr. Thomas Bullock and their son, Henry, moved into the house with her mother.
	www.henryclay.org (606 words)

	Henry Clay Frick - People of Pennsylvania
		By the age of 30, Henry Frick was a millionaire.
		Shortly after the turbulent strike, Henry Clay Frick was attacked in his office by a man who shot and stabbed him.
		Henry Clay Frick : An Intimate Portrait is a huge work, a detailed biography luxuriously produced on heavy stock paper, full of marvelous illustrations and photographs.
	www.netstate.com /states/peop/people/pa_hcf.htm (713 words)

	Henry CLAY
		“Henry Clay and the Harvest of Bitter Fruit: The Struggle with John Tyler, 1841-1842.” Ph.D. dissertation, Indiana University, 1986.
		“Henry Clay, Nationalist.” Ph.D. dissertation, University of Kentucky, 1977.
		Knupfer, Peter B. “Compromise and Statesmanship: Henry Clay’s Union.” In The Union As It Is: Constitutional Unionism and Sectional Compromise, 1787-1861, pp.
	www.infoplease.com /biography/us/congress/clay-henry.html (804 words)

	Henry Clay (Smithsonian Infusion) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Henry Clay's early career was spent as a Kentucky lawyer.
		In 1811, Clay was elected to the U.S. House of Representatives, representing Kentucky.
		Clay resigned from the Senate in 1842 and was nominated by the Whigs for the election of 1844.
	xroads.virginia.edu /~CAP/smithson/clay.html (94 words)

	Henry Clay (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Henry Clay was born into a middle-class family in Hanover County, Virginia.
		Clay’s efforts to forge the Missouri Compromise (1820) were the first of several such ventures dealing with expansion and the spread of slavery.
		Clay was himself a slave owner, but he favored the emancipation of slaves and their resettlement in Africa.
	www.u-s-history.com /pages/h321.html (363 words)

	The Henry Clay Stereoscopic Camera (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The American Optical Company introduced the Henry Clay Stereoscopic Camera in 1892, one year after the original Henry Clay Camera and possibly one year ahead of the No.5 Folding Kodak (1893 improved model fitted with a stereoscopic lens board).
		As such, the Henry Clay Stereoscopic is historically important as the first self-casing stereo camera from which other companies based their designs.
		Built along the same design philosophy as the original Henry Clay Camera, the "Stereoscopic" was constructed of highly polished mahogany and brass trim with a red leather bellows.
	www.antiquewoodcameras.com /str-hc.htm (430 words)

	Brief Biographies of Jackson Era Characters (C)
		In the House of Representatives, from 1811-17, he had joined Henry Clay as a "War Hawk", calling for America's going to war with Great Britain, which was controlling the seas and impressing men off of American vessels, and suppressing much of America's overseas trade.
		Clay resigned the Senate in January 1814, and was appointed to help negotiate peace with Britain, along with John Quincy Adams and Abert Gallatin.
		In 1820 Clay, with some dazzling political footwork, forced got the congress to ratify the "Missouri Compromise", allowing Missouri into the Union as a slave state, which many of the north were dead-set against, while also adding one northern state (Maine, by splitting off, from Massachusetts) which preserved the ballance in the Senate.
	www.jmisc.net /BIOG-C.htm (7500 words)

	U.S. Senate: Art & History Home > Paintings > Henry Clay by Allyn Cox
		A committee chaired by Senator John F. Kennedy of Massachusetts was formed to choose the five outstanding members; Henry Clay, Daniel Webster of Massachusetts, and John C. Calhoun of South Carolina were easily selected.
		Healy found that Clay, with his quickly changing moods and expressions, was a challenge to capture on canvas.
		Clay was delighted with the result, however, stating: “You are a capital portrait painter, Mr.
	www.senate.gov /artandhistory/art/artifact/Painting_32_00007.htm (564 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.
		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.
		Works of Henry Clay (6 vols., New York, 1857; new ed., 7 vols., New York, 1898), the first three volumes of which are an See also:
	encyclopedia.jrank.org /CHR_CLI/CLAY_HENRY_17771852_.html (3048 words)

	Some Descendants of John Clay of Virginia
		Chesterfield co., VA. Samuel Clay was a Colonel in the American Rev. War; Martha was a daughter of Thomas Burfoot.
		Henry Clay 1777-1852; "the Statesman and Orator" resided on farm
		Charles Donald Clay 1857-1935; off-and-on Army officer: Fought at El Caney in Spanish American War; shot in throat and nearly killed during fighting in Philippine Insurrection; served as Quarter Master's staff in WWI.
	www.geocities.com /Heartland/Plains/6025/clay.htm (1787 words)

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