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Biographical Sketch. Many thanks to Dr. Thomas D. Clark. On June 29, 1852, Henry Clay asked his son Thomas to come and sit by his bedside. Just before noon, “The Great Compromiser” drew his last breath. His death marked the completion of a major chapter in American political history. Henry Clay’s service to his country lasted half a century.
Henry Clay of Kentucky (1777-1852) enjoyed a distinguished political career, even though he never attained his greatest desire—the presidency. A pivotal Senate leader during the antebellum era, a period in Senate history marked by heated debates over slavery and territorial expansion, Clay first entered politics in Kentucky’s state house of representatives in 1803.
Clay fue elegido miembro de la Cámara de Representantes de Kentucky en 1803 y sirvió hasta 1806. Luego, se desempeñó como Senador de Kentucky, de 1806 a 1807, y luego regresó a la Cámara de Representantes del Estado, de 1807 a 1809. En 1810 Clay regresó a el Senado y sirvió hasta 1811. Se convirtió en líder de un grupo de congresistas ...
Leer pdf. Arturo Grunstein Dicker presenta la experiencia del empresario petrolero y ferrocarrilero estadounidense Henry Clay Pierce en México, bajo el porfiriato. #empresa #historia #porfirio díaz #petróleo.
Pioneer Tunnel #1, popular referred to as the ‘Henry Clay’, is a Vulcan-type steam locomotive with a wheel arrangement of 0-4-0T. It was built by the Henry Clay Locomotive Works in 1927 to be used on the Pioneer Tunnel. But after operating for a few years, the Pioneer Tunnel suspended operations in 1931 due to the Great Depression.
In 1842, with the Whig program at a standstill, Clay resigned from the Senate and began to lay the groundwork for his presidential candidacy in 1844. Political cartoon depicting John Tyler, James K. Polk, and Henry Clay in a race for a “$25,000 prize” (the president's salary), a metaphor for the 1844 presidential campaign.
Henry Clay (1777-1852) Text by Thomas Rush. He was one of the most partisan, hot-headed, and polarizing politicians of his day. Yet he was also a statesman possessing an unsurpassed ability for brokering differences, for finding the middle ground, for soothing and consoling opposing passions into compromise and reconciliation.
