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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Clay, Cassius Marcellus 1810- (search)
Clay, Cassius Marcellus 1810- Diplomatist; born in Madison county, Ky., Oct. 19, 1810; son of Green Clay; was graduated at Yale College in 1832. He became a lawyer; was a member of the Kentucky legislature in 1835, 1837, and 1840. In June, 1845, he issued, at Lexington, Ky., the first number of the True American, a weekly anti-slavery paper. In August his press was seized by a mob, after which it was printed in Cincinnati and published at Lexington, and afterwards at Louisville. Mr. Clay was a captain in the war with Mexico, and was made prisoner in January, 1847. In 1862 he was appointed major-general of volunteers, and was United States minister to Russia from 1863 to 1869.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), McLane, Louis 1786-1857 (search)
ts defence. For ten successive years (1817-27) he represented Delaware in Congress, and was United States Senator in 1827-29. In May, 1829, President Jackson appointed him American minister to Great Britain, which post he held two years, when he was called to Jackson's cabinet as Secretary of the Treasury. In his instructions to Minister McLane, the President said, Ask nothing but what is right, and submit to nothing that is wrong. In 1833, in consequence of his declining to remove the government deposits from the United States Bank, he was transferred to the post of Secretary of State, which he held until 1834, when he resigned. In 1837-47 he was president of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad. Pending the settlement of the Oregon boundary ques tion, he was again minister to Great Britain, appointed by President Polk in June, 1845. His last public acts were as a member of the convention at Annapolis to reform the constitution of Maryland. He died in Baltimore, Md., Oct. 7, 1857.