Clement Clairborne Clay (1816 - 1882)

Born 13 Dec 1816 in Huntsville, Madison County, Alabama, USA

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Died 3 Jan 1882 at age 65 in Gurley, Madison County, Alabama, USA

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Preceded by Jeremiah Clemens Office established November 6, 1861

Clement Claiborne Clay US Senator (Class 2) from Alabama 1853—1861 CS Senator from Alabama 1862—1864

Succeeded by Vacant 1861 – 1868 Secession, Civil War & Reconstruction Succeeded by Richard Wilde Walker

Biography

Clement Clay is Notable.

From Wikipedia: Clement Claiborne Clay

Clement Claiborne Clay (December 13, 1816 – January 3, 1882) was a United States Senator (Democrat) from the state of Alabama from 1853 to 1861, and a Confederate States Senator from Alabama from 1861 to 1863. His portrait appears on the Confederate one-dollar note (4th issue and later).

After the war he and his wife Virginia were imprisoned for a time by the United States government at Fort Monroe, on the suspicion of having been involved in the assassination of President Abraham Lincoln. They were released in 1866. Former president Jefferson Davis was also held there, but was never tried; he was released in 1867. Clay and his wife returned to Alabama where he became a merchant and planter.

From the Biographical Directory of the American Congress

CLAY, Clement Claiborne, Jr., (son of Clement Comer Clay), a Senator from Alabama; born in Huntsville, Ala., December 13, 1816; graduated from the University of Alabama at Tuscaloosa in 1834 and from the law department of the University of Virginia at Charlottesville in 1839; admitted to the bar and commenced practice in Huntsville, Ala., in 1840; member, State house of representatives 1842, 1844, 1845; judge of the county court of Madison County 1846-1848; unsuccessful candidate for election in 1850 to the Thirty-second Congress; elected as a Democrat to the United States Senate to fill the vacancy in the term commencing March 4, 1853, caused by the failure of the legislature to elect; reelected in 1858 and served from November 29, 1853, to January 21, 1861, when he withdrew; chairman, Committee on Commerce (Thirty-fifth and Thirty-sixth Congresses): member of the Confederate Senate 1861-1863; was a diplomatic agent of the Confederate States; arrested and imprisoned in Fortress Monroe in 1865; after the war settled on his plantation in Jackson County, Ala., and devoted himself to agricultural pursuits and to the practice of law; died at ‘Wildwood,’ near Gurley, Madison County, Ala., January 3, 1882; interment in Maple Hill Cemetery, Huntsville, Ala.

From: Find A Grave Memorial #6420332

US Senator, CSA Senator. The son of Senator Clement Comer Clay, he was elected as a Democratic Senator from Alabama to the United States Senate, serving from 1853 until January 21, 1861, when he withdrew from Congress along with other Senators from secessionist Southern States. Soon after the formation of the Confederate States of America, he was elected as a Senator from Alabama to the Confederate Senate. He served from 1861 to 1863, then served as a diplomatic agent for the Confederacy. At one time he was suspected of conspiring to assassinate President Abraham Lincoln and spent nearly a year in prison after the Civil War.^[1]

Slaves

In the 1850 Slave Schedule Clement Clay held 10 enslaved people in Huntsville, Madison, Alabama, United States.^[2]

In the 1860 census Clement Clay held 17 enslaved people in Huntsville, Madison, Alabama, United States.^[3]

CC Clay Junior and Senior owned 87 slaves on 4 different plantations in 1860.

Balance of information indicates that CC Clay Jr is the father of Ella Clay (abt.1860-).

Sources

1. ↑ Find A Grave Memorial# 6420332
2. ↑ 1850 Census: "1850 U.S. Federal Census - Slave Schedules"
   The National Archive in Washington Dc; Washington, DC; NARA Microform Publication: M432; Title: Seventh Census of the United States, 1850; Record Group: Records of the Bureau of the Census; Record Group Number: 29
   Ancestry Sharing Link - Ancestry Record 8055 #90279347 (accessed 5 February 2023)
   Clement C Clay in Huntsville, Madison, Alabama, USA.
3. ↑ 1860 Census: "1860 U.S. Federal Census - Slave Schedules"
   The National Archives in Washington DC; Washington DC, USA; Eighth Census of the United States 1860; Series Number: M653; Record Group: Records of the Bureau of the Census; Record Group Number: 29
   Ancestry Sharing Link - Ancestry Record 7668 #94335391 (accessed 5 February 2023)
   Clement C Clay in Huntsville, Madison, Alabama, USA.

• "United States Census, 1850," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MH5Q-W4N : accessed 31 August 2015), Clement C Clay, Huntsville, Madison, Alabama, United States; citing family 575, NARA microfilm publication M432 (Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.).

• American National Biography; Dictionary of American Biography;

• Clay-Clopton, Virginia. A Belle of the Fifties. 1904. Reprint. New York: Da Capo Press, 1969; Nueremberger, Ruth Ketring.

• The Clays of Alabama. Lexington: University of Kentucky Press, 1958.

• Sen Clement Claiborne Clay