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Henry Clay Sr. (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.
In early 1850, Clay proposed a package of eight bills that would settle most of the pressing issues before Congress. Clay's proposal was opposed by President Zachary Taylor, anti-slavery Whigs like William Seward, and pro-slavery Democrats like John C. Calhoun, and congressional debate over the territories continued. The debates over the bill ...
Charlotte Dupuy, also called Lottie (c. 1787–1790 – c. 1866), [1] [Note 1] was an enslaved African-American woman who filed a freedom suit in 1829 against her enslaver, Henry Clay, who was then Secretary of State.
Presidential elections were held in the United States from November 1 to December 4, 1844. Democratic nominee James K. Polk narrowly defeated Whig Henry Clay in a close contest turning on the controversial issues of slavery and the annexation of the Republic of Texas.
The three would remain in the Senate until their deaths, with exceptions for Webster and Calhoun's tenures as Secretary of State and Clay's presidential campaigns in 1844 and 1848. The time these three men spent in the Senate represents a time of rising political pressure in the United States, especially on the matter of slavery. With each one ...
Clay and his pro-compromise allies succeeded in pressuring half of the anti-restrictionist [clarification needed] Southerners in the House to submit to the passage of the Thomas proviso and maneuvered a number of restrictionist [clarification needed] northerners in the House to acquiesce in supporting Missouri as a slave state.
With the strong backing of slave state delegates, Taylor defeated Henry Clay to win the Whig presidential nomination. [32] For vice president, the Whigs nominated Millard Fillmore of New York, a conservative Northerner. [33]
After three rounds of voting, Theodore Frelinghuysen – "the Christian Statesman" – was selected as Clay's running mate. An advocate of colonization of emancipated slaves, he was acceptable to southern Whigs as an opponent of the abolitionists. [16] His pious reputation balanced Clay's image as a slave-holding, hard-drinking duelist.