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Henry Clay was born on April 12, 1777, at the Clay homestead in Hanover County, Virginia. [2] He was the seventh of nine children born to the Reverend John Clay and Elizabeth (née Hudson) Clay. [ 3 ]
Dean was born in Fayette County, Pennsylvania, October 27, 1822.Named for the senator from Kentucky, Henry Clay, Dean was born just two years after Clay guided the Missouri Compromise into law.
Henry Clay Work, named for distinguished statesman and former House speaker Henry Clay, [1] was born on October 1, 1832, in Middletown, Connecticut. [2] The Work family was of Scottish origin, their surname derived from Auld Wark, a significant stronghold during the Anglo-Scottish wars.
Green Clay Smith (1826–1895), U.S. Congressman from Kentucky and Territorial Governor of Montana. Henry Clay (1777–1852), U.S. Representative and Senator from Kentucky; Speaker of the House of Representatives; U.S. Secretary of State. Henry Clay, Jr. (1811–1847), Lt. Col. in the Second Kentucky Regiment, killed in the Battle of Buena Vista.
Henry Clay Jr. (April 10, 1811 – February 23, 1847) was an American politician and soldier from Kentucky, the third son of US Senator and Representative Henry Clay and Lucretia Hart Clay. He was elected to the Kentucky House of Representatives in 1835 and served one term.
Henry Clay Folger Jr. was born in New York City to Henry Clay Folger Sr. of Nantucket, Massachusetts, and Eliza Jane (Clark) Folger of New York, the eldest of their eight children. He was a first cousin six times removed of Benjamin Franklin and a nephew of J. A. Folger , the founder of Folger Coffee .
Henry Clay was a Virginia-born politician who was active during the first half of the 19th century. [16] As a member of the United States Congress, Clay was a proponent of the American System, an economic plan that relied on high tariffs in order to foster the growth of American industry. [10]
Henry Clay Hooker was born January 10, 1828, in Hinsdale, New Hampshire [1] on a farm that had belonged to his great-grandfather. [2] His father was Henry C. Hooker Sr. (1791–1885), a descendant of early New England leader Thomas Hooker, and his mother was Mary Daggett. He was sixth among 10 siblings: Amelia Prentice, Julia Worthington ...