<pre style="white-space: pre-wrap">xt75dv1cng2m https://exploreuk.uky.edu/dips/xt75dv1cng2m/data/mets.xml https://exploreuk.uky.edu/dips/xt75dv1cng2m/data/70m39.dao.xml Clay, Henry, 1777-1852 1797-1847 0.23 Cubic Feet 1 box collections 70m39 English University of Kentucky The physical rights to the materials in this collection are held by the University of Kentucky Special Collections Research Center.  Contact the Special Collections Research Center for information regarding rights and use of this collection. Henry Clay account book Gambling Practice of law -- Kentucky. Henry Clay account book text Henry Clay account book 1797 1797-1847 2016 true xt75dv1cng2m collection true 70m39 70m39 Clay, Henry account book Henry Clay account book, 1797-1847  70m39 Ida Sell University of Kentucky Special Collections Research Center 2011 August 11 Special Collections Research Center Margaret I. King Building, North Lexington 40506-0039 SCLREF@LSV.UKY.EDU URL:  This finding aid was produced using ArchivesSpace on  2016-07-21 11:14:18 -0400 . Describing Archives: A Content Standard 2015 January 21 EAD updated by Megan Mummey. 
   
     
       English 
     
     
       University of Kentucky Special Collections Research Center 
     
     Henry Clay account book 
     
       Clay, Henry, 1777-1852 
     
     70m39 
     
       0.23 Cubic Feet 
       1 box 
     
     1797-1847 
     The Henry Clay account book (dated 1797-1847; 0.23 cubic feet; 1 box) consists of a bound volume of contracts and transactions maintained by Henry Clay and various Kentuckians. 
   
   
     Biographical note 
 Henry Clay (1777-1852), statesman, orator, and Secretary of State, was born to Baptist minister John Clay and Elizabeth Hudson Clay in Hanover County, Virginia, on April 12, 1777. Clay, with little formal education, entered the Virginia bar in 1797, shortly before relocating to Lexington, Kentucky, to open a law practice. First elected to public office in 1803, Clay's involvement in the politics of the United State lasted until his death in 1852. He served as Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives (1811-1814, 1815-1820, 1823-1825), as Secretary of State for John Quincy Adams (1825-1829), and as a senator in the U.S. Senate (1806-1807, 1810-1811, 1831-1842, 1849-1852). Attempting to fulfill his ultimate dream, Clay ran unsuccessfully for president three times: in 1824 as a Democratic Republican, in 1832 as a National Republican, and in 1844 as a Whig. Dubbed the  Great Compromiser  for his efforts to preserve the Union, Clay helped negotiate compromises during several conflicts between the free and slave states, including the Missouri Compromise in 1820 and the Great Compromise in 1850. As well as being a skilled orator and politician, Henry Clay was also a progressive agrarian and stockman, who took great pleasure in managing his own affairs and improvements at his estate, Ashland. He brought donkeys from Spain and Malta to Ashland as well as Hereford cattle and Durham short horn cattle. Clay's stables produced several still prominent horse blood lines, including eleven descendants who won the Kentucky Derby. Furthermore, he regularly submitted articles to agricultural journals and sat on the committee of the Kentucky Society for Promoting Agriculture.  Henry Clay married Lucretia Hart (1781-1864) on April 11, 1799, and had eleven children with her: Henrietta (1800-1801), Theodore Wyeth (1802-1870), Thomas Hart (1803-1871), Susan Hart (1805-1825), Anne Brown (1807-1835), Lucretia Hart (1809-1823), Henry, Jr. (1811-1847), Eliza (1813-1825), Laura (1815-1817), James Brown (1817-1864), and John Morrison (1821-1887).    
   
     Conditions Governing Access 
 Collection is open to researchers by appointment.    
   
     Conditions Governing Use 
 The physical rights to the materials in this collection are held by the University of Kentucky Special Collections Research Center.    
   
     Preferred Citation 
 70m39: [identification of item] Henry Clay account book, 1797-1847, University of Kentucky Special Collections Research Center.    
   
     Scope and Contents 
 The Henry Clay account book (dated 1797-1847; 0.23 cubic feet; 1 box) consists of a bound volume of contracts and transactions maintained by Henry Clay and various Kentuckians. The bulk of the contracts took place from 1800-1810. The transactions are represented on the left handed page in a double entry bookkeeping style, while the written contract is expressed on the right handed page. The contracts involve legal affairs, gambling payments, and credit accounts with Henry Clay. There is a typed transcription of the account book also included in the collection.    
   
     Kentucky -- History. 
     Account books. 
     Gambling 
     Practice of law -- Kentucky. 
     Brown, John 
     Clay, Henry, 1777-1852 
     Hart, Henry Clay, 1837- 
     Clay, Thomas Hart, 1803-1871 
     Breckinridge, John, 1797-1841 
     Todd, Thomas. 
     Owings, Thomas Dye, 1776-1853 
     Owings, John Cockey. 
     Taylor, Hubbard, 1760-1840 
     Russell, James R. 
     Clay, Henry, 1777-1852 
   
   Henry Clay account book 1797-1847 1 1 
 
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