亨利·克莱，肯塔基州国会议员(1777-1852)

粘土,亨利(詹姆斯·布朗·克莱的父亲)，肯塔基州参议员和众议员;1777年4月12日出生于弗吉尼亚州汉诺威县的斜线区;就读于公立学校;在弗吉尼亚州里士满学习法律;1797年获得律师资格，并在肯塔基州的列克星敦开始执业;1803年，州众议院议员;作为民主党共和党人当选为美国参议院议员，填补约翰·阿代尔辞职后的空缺，任期从1806年11月19日至1807年3月3日，尽管他还没有达到宪法规定的30岁的年龄限制;1808-1809年州众议院议员，并于1809年担任议长;再次以民主党共和党人的身份当选为美国参议院议员，填补巴克纳·特劳斯顿辞职后的空缺，任期从1810年1月4日至1811年3月3日;作为民主党共和党人当选第十二届和第十三届国会议员，从1811年3月4日任职至1814年1月19日辞职; Speaker of the House of Representatives (Twelfth and Thirteenth Congresses); appointed one of the commissioners to negotiate the treaty of peace with Great Britain in 1814; elected as a Democratic Republican to the Fourteenth Congress (March 4, 1815-March 3, 1817); seat declared vacant by the governor of Kentucky, âcaused by the acceptance of Henry Clay to sign a commercial convention as minister plenipotentiary to Great Britainâ; elected in a special election as a Democratic Republican to the Fourteenth Congress to fill his own vacancy on October 30, 1815; re-elected as a Democratic Republican to the Fifteenth and succeeding Congress (March 4, 1817-March 3, 1821); Speaker of the House of Representatives (Fourteenth, Fifteenth and Sixteenth Congresses); elected to the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Congresses and served from March 3, 1823, to March 6, 1825, when he resigned; again served as Speaker of the House of Representatives (Eighteenth Congress); appointed Secretary of State by President John Quincy Adams 1825-1829; elected as a National Republican to the United States Senate on November 10, 1831, to fill the vacancy in the term commencing March 4, 1831; reelected as a Whig in 1836 and served from November 10, 1831, until March 31, 1842, when he resigned; chairman, Committee on Foreign Relations (Twenty-third and Twenty-fourth Congresses), Committee on Finance (Twenty-seventh Congress); unsuccessful presidential candidate of the Democratic Republican Party in 1824, of the National Republican Party in 1832, and of the Whig Party in 1844; again elected to the United States Senate and served from March 4, 1849, until his death in Washington, D.C., June 29, 1852; lay in state in the Rotunda of the U.S. Capitol, July 1, 1852; funeral services held in the Senate Chamber; interment in Lexington Cemetery, Lexington, KY.

参考书目

美国国家传记;美国传记词典;耶鲁美国法律传记词典;粘土,亨利。亨利·克莱的论文，1797-1852。编辑詹姆斯霍普金斯，玛丽哈格里夫斯，罗伯特西格尔二世，梅尔巴波特海等11卷。列克星敦:肯塔基大学出版社，1959-1992;罗伯特·雷米尼亨利·克莱:联邦的政治家。纽约:诺顿出版社，1991。

资料来源:美国国会传记目录，1771年至今