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Henry Clay was born on April 12, ... Monroe offered Clay the position of secretary of war, ... a stronger federal government, a higher tariff, greater spending on ...
In U.S. politics, the Great Triumvirate (known also as the Immortal Trio) refers to a triumvirate of three statesmen who dominated American politics for much of the first half of the 19th century, namely Henry Clay of Kentucky, Daniel Webster of Massachusetts, and John C. Calhoun of South Carolina. [1]
Ellis H. Roberts, Government Revenue, especially the American System, an argument for industrial freedom against the fallacies of free trade (Boston, 1884) J. P. Young, Protection and Progress: a Study of the Economic Bases of the American Protective System (Chicago, 1900) Clay, Henry. The Papers of Henry Clay, 1797–1852. Edited by James Hopkins
Henry Clay of Kentucky was the party's congressional leader from the time of its formation in 1833 until his resignation from the Senate in 1842, and he remained an important Whig leader until his death in 1852. [183]
Senator Henry Clay Senator John C. Calhoun. The Tariff of 1833 (also known as the Compromise Tariff of 1833, ch. 55, 4 Stat. 629), enacted on March 2, 1833, was proposed by Henry Clay and John C. Calhoun as a resolution to the Nullification Crisis.
Henry Clay's longtime rival and political opponent, President Andrew Jackson, in explaining his support for a tariff, wrote: We have been too long subject to the policy of the British merchants. It is time we should become a little more Americanized, and, instead of feeding the paupers and laborers of Europe, feed our own, or else, in a short ...
John Tyler, the incumbent president in 1844, whose term expired on March 4, 1845 Political cartoon predicting Polk's defeat by Clay Grand National Whig banner. Henry Clay of Kentucky, effectively the leader of the Whig Party since its inception in 1834, [82] was selected as its nominee at the party's convention in Baltimore, Maryland, on May 1 ...
Wirt hoped for an endorsement from the National Republicans. When the National Republican Party nominated Henry Clay, Wirt's position became awkward. He did not withdraw, even though he had no chance of being elected. [10] The convention was organized on September 26 and heard reports of its committees on the 27th.