Henry Clay (1777–1852)
Bushrod Washington asked Henry Clay for patronage favors while the latter was secretary of state.
Henry Clay was born on 12 April 1777 near Hanover Court House, Virginia. After studying law under George Wythe, he gained admittance to the bar and moved to Lexington, Kentucky, to open a practice. With his 1803 election to the Kentucky legislature, Clay began a legendary career in public service that included stints as a U.S. representative and speaker of the House (1811–14, 1815–21, 1823–25), U.S.
Robert V. Remini, Henry Clay: Statesman for the Union (New York: W.W. Norton & Company, 1991).
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"Henry Clay to Thomas Jefferson, 8 September 1816," Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Jefferson/03-10-02-0262. [Original source: The Papers of Thomas Jefferson, Retirement Series, vol. 10, May 1816 to 18 January 1817, ed. J. Jefferson Looney. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2013, p. 378.]
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