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Henry Clay (April 12, 1777 – June 29, 1852) was an American lawyer and statesman who represented Kentucky in both the U.S. Senate and House of Representatives. He was the seventh House speaker as well as the ninth secretary of state. He unsuccessfully ran for president in the 1824, 1832, and 1844 elections.
Incumbent president Andrew Jackson, candidate of the Democratic Party, defeated Henry Clay, candidate of the National Republican Party. The election saw the first use of the presidential nominating conventions , and the Democrats, National Republicans, and the Anti-Masonic Party all used conventions to select their candidates.
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 ...
Henry Clay John C. Calhoun 182 99 74 2 7 Nathan Sanford 30 – – 3 27 Nathaniel Macon 24 – – 24 – Andrew Jackson 13 – 9 1 3 Martin Van Buren 9 – – 9 – Henry Clay 2 – – 2 – (No vote for vice president) 1 – 1 – – Total 261 99 84 41 37
The House of Representatives had to decide. Speaker Clay supported Adams, who was elected as president by the House, and Clay was appointed Secretary of State. Jackson called it a "corrupt bargain". [21] Henry Clay, a founder of the Whig Party in the 1830s and its 1844 presidential nominee
Maryland voted for the Whig candidate, Henry Clay, over Democratic candidate James K. Polk. Clay won Maryland by a margin of 4.78%. With 52.39% of the popular vote, Maryland would prove to be Henry Clay's fifth strongest state after Rhode Island, Vermont, Kentucky and North Carolina. [1]
Voters chose 12 representatives, or electors to the Electoral College, who voted for President and Vice President. Kentucky voted for the Whig candidate, Henry Clay, over Democratic candidate James K. Polk. Clay won his home state by a margin of 8.18%.
New York voted for the Democratic candidate, James K. Polk, over Whig candidate Henry Clay. Polk won New York by a narrow margin of 1.05%. New York was decisive; if Clay had won the state, he would have received 141 electoral votes, more than the 138 needed to win at the time. Fulton and Cayuga would not vote Democratic again until 1964.