US Congressman. Born in Washington, D.C., he was the son of US Senator Henry Clay. He was clerk at a count house in Boston, (1832-34) studied law at the Lexington Law School Kentucky, was admitted to the bar, practiced law in Lexington and was the Chargé d’Affaires to Portugal, (1849-50). In 1857, he was elected as a Democrat to the Thirty-fifth Congress, serving until 1859. Not a candidate for re-nomination, he was a member of the 1861, peace convention held in Washington, D.C., to prevent the impending the Civil War. He died at age 46 in Montreal, Canada.
Bio by: John "J-Cat" Griffith
Family Members
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![Henry Clay]()
Henry Clay
1777–1852
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![Lucretia Clay]()
Lucretia Hart Clay
1781–1864
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![Susanna Clay]()
Susanna Maria Jacob Clay
1823–1905
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Henrietta Clay
1800–1801
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![Sarah Mead]()
Sarah Sally Clay Mead
1801–1897
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![Theodore Clay]()
Theodore Wythe Clay
1802–1870
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![Thomas Clay]()
Thomas Hart Clay
1803–1871
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Susan Hart Clay Duralde
1805–1825
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![Mary Erwin]()
Mary Ann Brown Clay Erwin
1807–1835
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![Lucretia Clay]()
Lucretia Hart Clay
1809–1823
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![Henry Clay]()
Henry Clay
1811–1847
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![Eliza Clay]()
Eliza Hart Clay
1813–1825
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![Laura Clay]()
Laura Clay
1816–1816
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![John Clay]()
John Morrison Clay
1821–1887
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![James Clay]()
James Brown Clay
1846–1906
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![John Clay]()
John Cathcart Johnston Clay
1847–1872
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![Henry Clay]()
Henry Clay
1849–1884
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![Lucretia Clay]()
Lucretia Hart Clay
1851–1923
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![Thomas Clay]()
Thomas Jacob Clay
1853–1939
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![Susan Clay]()
Susan Jacob Clay
1856–1864
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![Charles Clay]()
Charles Donald Clay
1857–1935
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![George Clay]()
George H Clay
1858–1934
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![Nathaniel Clay]()
Nathaniel Hart Clay
1861–1862
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