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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.