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Clay, Clement Claiborne

JR., state legislator, United States senator, was born in 1819 in Madison, Ala. He served in the legislature of Alabama in 1842, 1844 and 1845, and was elected in 1846 a judge of the Madison county court.

In 1852 he was a presidential elector, and in 1853 was elected a senator in congress from Alabama. In 1859 he was re-elected for the term of six years, receiving every vote in the legislature. He was expelled from the senate March 14, 1861, and took part in the rebellion of that year, and was subsequently confined in Fortress Monroe as a prisoner of state.