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Clay, Henry (b. 12 April 1777) Reference library
Encyclopedia of African American History, 1619–1895: From the Colonial Period to the Age of Frederick Douglass
... Laws and Legislation, Antebellum . Bibliography Clay, Henry . Papers . Edited by James F. Hopkins . 11 vols. Lexington: University of Kentucky Press, 1959–1992. The best compilation of Clay's numerous letters and papers available. Mayo, Bernard . Henry Clay: Spokesman of the New West (1937). Hamden, CT: Archon, 1966. The first comprehensive biography of Clay's life and career. Remini, Robert V. Henry Clay: Statesman for the Union . New York: Norton, 1991. The most readable and comprehensive account of Clay's life, focusing mainly on his political career....
Clay, Henry (1777–1852) Reference library
The Oxford Essential Dictionary of the U.S. Military
..., Henry ( 1777–1852 ) Speaker of the House of Representatives ( 1811–14 , 1815–21 , 1823–25 ), secretary of state ( 1825–29 ), U.S. senator ( 1806–07 , 1810–11 , 1831–42 , 1849–1852 ), and Whig candidate for president ( 1832 , 1844 ), born in Hanover County, Virginia . Clay was known as the “Great Pacificator” and the “Great Compromiser” for his role in resolving the Missouri Compromise and Compromise of 1850 crises. Clay signed the treaty ending the War of 1812 . In 1806 , Clay was chosen to serve out the unexpired Senate term of John...
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Kimberly C. Shankman
The Bloomsbury Encyclopedia of the American Enlightenment
...to successive generations. Bibliography The Papers of Henry Clay , ed. James F. Hopkins , Mary W. M. Hargreaves et al., 11 vols (Lexington, KY, 1959–92). The Private Correspondence of Henry Clay , ed. Calvin Colton (New York, 1956). Further Reading Baxter, Maurice G. Henry Clay and the American System (Lexington, KY, 1995). Feller, Daniel . The Jacksonian Promise: America 1815-1840 (Baltimore, 1995). Heidler, David and Jeanne Heidler . Henry Clay, The Essential American (New York, 2010). Howe, Daniel Walker . The Political...
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Matthew J. Karp
The Oxford Encyclopedia of American Military and Diplomatic History
..., Henry ( 1777–1852 ), U.S. congressman, senator, secretary of state, presidential candidate, and Whig Party leader . Henry Clay was born, raised, and educated in eastern Virginia, but he moved with his mother's family to Lexington, Kentucky, in 1797 , where he established a legal practice. His 1799 marriage to Lucretia Hart allied him with one of the new state's leading political families. A gifted speaker and an immensely charismatic personality, Clay was encouraged by his influential connections to pursue a political career. In 1803 he won a place...
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The Oxford Guide to the United States Government
..., Henry • Born: Apr. 12, 1777 , Hanover County, Va. • Political party: Democratic-Republican, Whig • Education: studied law in Richmond, Virginia • Senator from Kentucky: 1810–11 , 1831–42 , 1849–52 • Representative from Kentucky: 1811–14 , 1815–21 , 1823–25 • Speaker of the House: 1811–14 , 1815–20 , 1823–25 • Died: June 29, 1852 , Washington, D.C. Known as the “Great Compromiser,” Henry Clay dominated the House and Senate for more than four decades yet lost the election every time he ran for President. After a brief term in the Senate,...
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Daniel Walker Howe
The Oxford Encyclopedia of American Political and Legal History
...the plan’s adoption. Although Clay ended on the losing side of many controversies, the Republican Party that arose after his death implemented much of his economic program. [ See also Adams, John Quincy ; Calhoun, John C. ; Federal Government, Legislative Branch: House of Representatives ; Federal Government, Legislative Branch: Senate ; and Political Parties . ] Bibliography Peterson, Merrill. The Great Triumvirate: Webster, Clay, and Calhoun . New York: Oxford University Press, 1987. Remini, Robert. Henry Clay . New York: W. W. Norton, 1991....
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Daniel Walker Howe
The Oxford Companion to United States History
...Clay, Henry ( 1777–1852 ), statesman and Whig party leader in the second-party system. Born in Virginia, Clay read law and in 1797 moved to Lexington, Kentucky. After serving in the Kentucky legislature and teaching law at Transylvania University, he won election in 1810 to the U.S. House of Representatives, where he served, apart from brief intervals, until 1825 , usually as Speaker. An unsuccessful presidential candidate in 1824 , he participated in the congressional maneuvering that brought John Quincy Adams to the White House. When Adams...
Clay, Henry (1883–1954) Reference library
The Biographical Dictionary of British Economists
..., Henry ( 1883–1954 ) Clay was born in Germany on 9 May 1883 , but was a Yorkshireman to his fingertips, his family having temporarily located near Munchen-Gladbach where his father, Henry James Clay, a Bradford woollen manufacturer, had formed the firm of Goetz, Clay, & Co. He died 30 July 1954 as a result of a street accident in Holland where he had gone to join his children for a North Sea trip in the family yacht. He was the fourth of six children of Henry Clay Senior and his wife, Elizabeth Bulmer. The German partnership ended after eight years...
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World Encyclopedia
..., Henry ( 1777–1852 ) US statesman He served in both the House of Representatives ( 1811–14 , 1815–21 , 1823–25 ), several times as speaker, and in the Senate ( 1831–42 , 1849–52 ). He was one of the ‘war hawks’ who favoured the War of 1812 . He ran for president ( 1824 ), and when the election went to the House of Representatives, he threw his support behind the eventual winner, John Quincy Adams . One of the founders of the Whigs , he ran against Andrew Jackson (a bitter political enemy) In 1832 . He ran for president again ( 1844 ) but was...
Clay, Henry (1883–1954) Reference library
The Biographical Dictionary of American Economists
..., Henry ( 1883–1954 ) Henry Clay was born in Germany on 9 May 1883 , but was a Yorkshireman to his fingertips, his family having temporarily located near Munchen-Gladbach where his father, Henry James Clay, a Bradford woollen manufacturer, had formed the firm of Goetz, Clay, & Co. He died 30 July 1954 as a result of a street accident in Holland where he had gone to join his children for a North Sea trip in the family yacht. He was the fourth of six children of Henry Clay senior and his wife, Elizabeth Bulmer . The German partnership ended after eight...
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A Dictionary of World History (3 ed.)
..., Henry ( 1777–1852 ) US statesman and orator . As Speaker of the House of Representatives (1811–14) he played a central role in the agitation leading to the War of 1812 , and was one of the commissioners responsible for the negotiation of the Treaty of Ghent that ended it. He was one of the architects of the Missouri Compromise and won support for his American System, a policy to improve national unity through a programme of economic legislation. His final political achievement lay in helping the passage of the Compromise of 1850 between the opposing...
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Oxford Essential Quotations (6 ed.)
...0Henry Henry Clay 1777 – 1852 American politician The gentleman [ Josiah Quincy ] can not have forgotten his own sentiment, uttered even on the floor of this House, ‘peaceably if we can, forcibly if we must’. speech in Congress, 8 January 1813; see Quincy peaceably if we can forcibly if we must I had rather be right than be President. to Senator Preston of South Carolina, 1839 attributed; S. W. McCall Life of Thomas Brackett Reed (1914) ch. 14 I had rather be right rather be right than be ...
Henry Clay (1777–1852) Reference library
Oxford Dictionary of Quotations (8 ed.)
...0Henry Henry Clay 1777 – 1852 American politician . On Clay: see glascock If you wish to avoid foreign collision, you had better abandon the ocean. speech in the House of Representatives, 22 January 1812, in C. Colton The Life, Correspondence and Speeches of Henry Clay (1864) vol. 5 avoid foreign collision avoid foreign collision abandon the ocean The gentleman [ Josiah Quincy ] can not have forgotten his own sentiment, uttered even on the floor of this House, ‘peaceably if we can, forcibly if we must’. speech in Congress, 8 January 1813, in...
Henry Clay (1777–1852) Reference library
The Oxford Dictionary of American Quotations (2 ed.)
...Henry Clay 1777 – 1852 The Constitution of the United States was made not merely for the generation that then existed, but for posterity—unlimited, undefined, endless, perpetual posterity. speech, U.S. Senate, Feb. 6, 1850 I had rather be right than be president. Clay made this remark when taunted in the Senate for once again setting on a course away from the White House. Clay had five times sought the presidency without success. On this occasion, he was speaking in defense of the series of resolutions originated by him in 1848 to avoid civil war over...
Henry Clay (1777–1852) Reference library
Oxford Dictionary of Political Quotations (4 ed.)
...0Henry Henry Clay 1777 – 1852 American politician . On Clay: see glascock , jackson I am for resistance by the sword . No man in the nation desires peace more than I. But I prefer the troubled ocean of war…to the tranquil, putrescent pool of ignominious peace. speech in the US Senate on the Macon Bill, 22 February 1810 resistance by the sword resistance by the sword If you wish to avoid foreign collision, you had better abandon the ocean. in the House of Representatives, 22 January 1812 avoid foreign collision avoid foreign collision...
Lukens, Henry Clay Reference library
The Oxford Companion to American Literature (6 ed.)
...Henry Clay ( 1838–1900? ), New York journalist, author of parodies, lampoons, and humorous verse, usually signed by his pseudonym Erratic Enrique . He wrote Lean Nora ( 1870 ), a parody of Burger 's Lenore; Jets and Flashes ( 1883 ), a book of lampoons; and an article on American Literary Comedians ( Harper's Magazine, ( 1890...
Merriam, Henry Clay (1837–1912) Reference library
The Oxford Essential Dictionary of the U.S. Military
...Henry Clay ( 1837–1912 ) Union army officer , born in Houlton, Maine . Merriam led the assault on Fort Blakely ( 1865 ), where his courage and gallantry contributed to the capture of 6,000 Confederates and for which he was awarded the Congressional Medal of Honor . Merriam had previously demonstrated bravery at the battles of Antietam and Fredericksburg (both 1862 ) and been cited for gallantry in the attack on Port Hudson , Louisiana ( 1863...
Folger, Henry Clay (1857–1930) Reference library
The Oxford Companion to the Book
...Henry Clay ( 1857–1930 ) American book collector and industrialist . Folger assembled the greatest *Shakespeare library in the world, acquiring 79 copies of the *First Folio and a large collection of early *quartos , as well as other medieval and renaissance holdings in MSS and printed books. In 1930 he founded the *Folger Shakespeare Library , in Washington, DC, which has since housed and enlarged his collection. A. S. G. Edwards L. B. Wright , The Folger Library ...
Miner, Henry Clay (1842–1900) Reference library
The Oxford Companion to American Theatre (3 ed.)
...Henry Clay ( 1842–1900 ), manager . The son of a noted New York civil engineer, he studied to be a pharmacist, but after serving in the Civil War chose instead careers in the theatre and politics. He became an advance agent for several performers, notably William “Buffalo Bill” Cody , and then in 1875 began to lease and build vaudeville houses. In 1895 he attempted unsuccessfully to form a national syndicate with J. H. McVicker and others. Miner is credited with originating “amateur nights,” and his son Tom is thought to have been the first to...
Trumbull, Henry Clay (1830–1903) Reference library
The Oxford Essential Dictionary of the U.S. Military
...Henry Clay ( 1830–1903 ) U.S. army chaplain , evangelist , and author . Born in Stonington, Connecticut, Trumbull is best known for his extensive religious writings. In 1862 he accepted the chaplaincy of the Tenth Connecticut Regiment, and after being ordained as a Congregationalist minister he reported to his unit in North Carolina. He was captured in 1863 while searching for wounded Union soldiers after the attack on Fort Wagner ( 1863 ). Exchanged a few months later he rejoined his regiment in Florida. He was frequently under fire at the...
