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Clay, Henry 1777-1852
Statesman; born in Hanover county, Va., April 12, 1777; received the rudiments of education in a log-cabin school-house; labored on a farm until he was fifteen years of age, when he entered the office of the High Court of Chancery, in Richmond, at which time his mother, who had married a second time, emigrated to Kentucky.
He studied law under the direction of Chancellor Wythe, and was admitted to the bar in 1797, when he opened a law-office in Lexington, Ky., where he obtained an extensive practice.
In 1803 he was elected to the Kentucky legislature, and was speaker in 1807-8.
He became United States Senator in 1808, and member of Congress and Speaker in 1811-14.
In 1814 he was a
Henry Clay at 40. commissioner to treat for peace with Great Britain, and afterwards, in Congress, was five times elected Speaker of the House of Representatives.
Mr. Clay was Secretary of State in the cabinet of John Quincy Adams (1825-29), and again a member of the United
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