Clement Comer Clay

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Clement Comer Clay (December 17, 1789–September 7, 1866) was the Democratic Governor of the U.S. state of Alabama from 1835 to 1837.

Clay was born in Halifax County, Virginia. His father, William Clay, was an officer in the American Revolutionary War, who moved to Grainger County, Tennessee, after the war. Clay attended public schools and graduated from East Tennessee College in 1807. He was admitted to the bar in 1809 and moved to Huntsville, Alabama, where he began a law practice in 1811.

Prior to being governor of Alabama he had served in the U.S. House of Representatives from March 4, 1829 until March 3, 1835.^[1]. Clay's term as governor ended early when he resigned when he was appointed to the United States Senate, where he served from June 19, 1837 until his resignation on November 15, 1841.

In 1836, Governor Clay signed a legislative act which chartered the third oldest Jesuit college in the United States, Spring Hill College in Mobile, Alabama, and gave it "full power to grant or confer such degree or degrees in the arts and sciences, or in any art or science as are usually granted or conferred by other seminaries of learning in the United States." He died in 1866 in Huntsville, Alabama.

v • d • e United States Senators from Alabama Class 2: King • Lewis • Fitzpatrick • Clemens • C. Claiborne Clay • Warner • Goldthwaite • Morgan • Bankhead, Sr. • Comer • J. Heflin • Bankhead, Jr. • Swift • Sparkman • H. Heflin • Sessions Class 3: Walker • Kelly • Chambers • Pickens • McKinley • Moore • McKinley • C. Comer Clay • Bagby • King • Fitzpatrick • Spencer • Houston • Pryor • Pugh • Pettus • Johnston • White • Underwood • Black • Graves • Hill • J. Allen • M. Allen • Stewart • Denton • Shelby

v • d • e Governors of Alabama W. Bibb • T. Bibb • Pickens • Murphy • G. Moore • S. Moore • Gayle • Clay • McVay • Bagby • Fitzpatrick • Martin • Chapman • Collier • Winston • A. Moore • Shorter • Watts • Parsons • Patton • Swayne • Smith • Lindsay • Lewis • Houston • Cobb • E.A. O'Neal • Seay • T. Jones • Oates • Johnston • Samford • Jelks • Comer • E. O'Neal • Henderson • Kilby • Brandon • Graves • Miller • Graves • Dixon • Sparks • Folsom Sr. • Persons • Folsom Sr. • Patterson • G. Wallace • L. Wallace • Brewer • G. Wallace • James • G. Wallace • Hunt • Folsom Jr. • James • Siegelman • Riley

v • d • e Chief Justices of the Supreme Court of Alabama Clay • Lipscomb • Saffold • Hitchcock • Hopkins • Collier • Dargan • Chilton • Goldthwaite • Rice • Walker • Peck • Peters • Brickell • Stone • McClellan • Weakley • Tyson • Dowdell • Anderson • Gardner • Livingston • Heflin • Torbert • Hornsby • Hooper • Moore • Nabers • Cobb

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[edit] References

• Clement Comer Clay at the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress
• Clement Comer Clay. Alabama Governors On-Line. Alabama Department of Archives & History. Retrieved on 2008-01-11.
• Clement Comer Clay. Famous Alabamians. Alabama Department of Archives & History. Retrieved on 2008-01-11.
• Alabama Governor Clement Comer Clay. Governor's Information. National Governors Association. Retrieved on 2008-01-11.

[edit] External links

• The Political Graveyard
• Clement Comer Clay at Find A Grave

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