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Clay, Clement Comer

lawyer, jurist, state legislator, governor, was born Dec. 17, 1789, in Halifax county, Va. He was elected a member of the territorial council of Alabama, and in 1819 was elected one of the judges of the circuit court, and in 1820 was chosen chief justice of that court. In 1828 he was elected to the state legislature, and was made speaker. He was a representative in congress from Alabama from 1827 to 1835 , and in 1835 was elected governor of Alabama, serving two years. In 1837 he was elected a senator in congress for the term ending in 1842. He died Sept. 9, 1866, in Huntsville, Ala.