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The Library of the World’s Best Literature. An Anthology in Thirty Volumes. 1917.

Henry Clay (1777–1852)

Clay, Henry. An eminent American orator and statesman; born in Hanover, VA, April 12, 1777; died at Washington, DC, June 29, 1852. He was United States Senator from Kentucky, 1806–7, 1810–11; Member of Congress from Kentucky, 1811–21, 1823–25; Speaker of the House, 1811–14, 1815–20, 1823–25; Presidential candidate, 1824; Secretary of State, 1825–29; United States Senator, 1831–42, 1849–52; Presidential candidate, 1832 and 1844; one of the formulators of the Missouri Compromise, 1820, and of the Compromise of 1850; author of the tariff of 1833. His ‘Complete Works’ (1857) are edited by Colton. (See Critical and Biographical Introduction).