Clay, Henry

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1. A Whig political leader of the early nineteenth century known for his efforts to keep the United States one nation despite sharp controversy among Americans over slavery. Clay represented Kentucky, first in the House of Representatives and then in the Senate. He was known as the “Great Pacificator” because of his prominent role in producing the Missouri Compromise and the Compromise of 1850.

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Clay ran unsuccessfully for president three times. He once said in a speech, “I would rather be right than be president.”

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Outside is one of the post's main tourist attractions: Clay Henry, a beer- drinking goat whose pen abuts the shaded porch.

From Time Magazine Archive

Clay, Henry, opposes joint action with England, 31; instructions to delegates to Panama Congress, 154.

From From Isolation to Leadership, Revised A Review of American Foreign Policy by Latane, John Holladay

Clay, Henry: Lincoln's regard for, vi; his eulogy of, xv.

From The Poets' Lincoln Tributes in Verse to the Martyred President by Oldroyd, Osborn H. (Osborn Hamiline)

Clay, Henry, 22, 99, 109, 114, 115, 116, 117, 184-190, 205, 206, 210.

From American Men of Action by Stevenson, Burton Egbert

Clay, Henry, Missouri Compromise, 48;   candidate for President 1844, 61;   Compromise of 1850, 68.

From A History of the Republican Party by Platt, George Washington