Henry Clay

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  • Born: Hanover County, Virginia (April 12)

  • studies law

  • Henry Marries Lucretia Hart

  • elected as state legislator

  • Duel with Aaron Burr

  • Fills Senate seat of Buckner Thruston

  • Elected into House of Representatives

  • War hawk during war of 1812

  • Helped negotiate the Treaty of Ghent

  • Helped negotiate a commerce treaty with Great Britain

  • President of the American Colonization Society in Liberia

    The American Colonization Society was a group that wanted to establish a colony for free American blacks in Africa
  • Period: to

    Senate of State under John Quincy Adams

  • Clay ran against Jackson in presidential campain and lost

  • Clay helped make a deal in Congress to lower the tariff of 1828

  • Clay lost presidential campain to Polk

  • Elected to senate again

  • Helped with comprimise of 1850

  • Clay attends the opening of the 32nd Congress 1st session

  • Died

  • Fort Sumter Bombardment