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Clay, Green – Clayton, Augustin Smith

Clay, Green

soldier, surveyor, state legislator, was born Aug. 14, 1757, in Powhatan county, Va. He was a representative of the Kentucky district in the Virginia legislature; a member of the convention that ratified the federal constitution, and a leading member of the Kentucky constitutional convention of 1799.

He died Oct. 31, 1826, in Kentucky.

Clay, James Brown

congressman, was born in Washington City, D. C., Nov. 9, 1817. He was elected to congress in 1857, serving one term on the committee on foreign affairs, and was a member of the peace convention of 1861, held in Washington. He was identified with the rebellion of 1861. He died Jan. 26, 1864, in Montreal, Canada.

Clay, James F

state senator, congressman, was born Oct. 29, 1840, in Henderson, Ky. He was a state senator from 1872 to 1875, and was elected a representative from Kentucky to the fortyeighth congress as a democrat.

Clay, James Ralph

educator, was born Aug. 19, 1867, near Camden Pt, Mo.

He attended the Gem City Business college of Quincy, Ill., and the Normal. school of Chillicothe, Mo. He has principally been engaged in educational work, and is the vice-president of the Epworth league at Dearborn, Mo.

Clay, John Randolph

diplomat, was born in 1808 in Philadelphia, Pa.

In 1830 he went to Russia as secretary of legation, and in 1836 was appointed charge d'affaires to the same country.

In 1838 he was made secretary of legation to Austria; and in 1845 went back to Russia in the same capacity. In 1847 he was appointed charge d'affaires to Peru, and in 1853 raised to the rank of minister plenipotentiary to the same country, remaining there until 1860.

Clay, Joseph

jurist, congressman, was born in 1741. He was a delegate from Georgia to the continental congress from 1778 to 1780, and was judge of the district court of Georgia from 1796 to 1801. He was paymaster-general of the southern department during the revolution. He died Jan. 16, 1805, in Savannah, Ga.

Clay, Joseph

lawyer, jurist, clergyman, was born Aug. 16, 1764, in Savannah, Ga. He was a leading member of the state constitutional convention, and was United States district judge of Georgia from 1796-1801. He died Jan. 11, 1811, in Boston, Mass.

Clay, Matthew

congressman. He was a representative in congress from Virginia from 1797 to 1813. He died in 1815.

Clay, Thomas H

diplomat, was born in 1803, in Kentucky, and son of Henry Clay. In 1862 he was appointed minister resident to Nicaragua, where he remained until 1866. During the same period he was accredited as minister to Honduras.

He died March 18, 1871, in Lexington, Ky.

Claypool, Benjamin F

congressman, was born Dec. 12, 1825, in Connersville, Ind. He was in 1856 a delegate to the Philadelphia convention that nominated John C.

Fremont. In 1860 he was elected Senator from the counties of Fayette and Union. In 1874 he was the nominee for congress in the then fifth congressional district.

Became president of the National Farmers' congress.

Clayton, Alexander M

jurist.

He was an early emigrant to Arkansas when it was a territory, and in 1835 was appointed one of the United States judges for that district.

Clayton, Augustin Smith

jurist, state legislator, author, was born Nov. 27, 1783, in Fredericksburg, Va. He was appointed judge of the superior court; was a presidential elector in 1829, and was a representative in congress from Georgia from 1831 to 1835. He died June 21, 1839, at Athens, Ga.