Home school of American history; embracing the growth and achievements of our country from the earliest days of discovery and settlement to the present eventful year .. . realityhis State. His great ability and win-ning manners made him populareverywhere. He served in the Ken-tucky Legislature, and, before he wasthirty years old, was elected to theUnited States Senate, of which hewas a member from 1806 to soon became recognized as theforemost chamj^ion of the cause ofinternal improvements and of thetariff measures, known as the American System. His speakership of theKentucky Assembly,
Home school of American history; embracing the growth and achievements of our country from the earliest days of discovery and settlement to the present eventful year .. . realityhis State. His great ability and win-ning manners made him populareverywhere. He served in the Ken-tucky Legislature, and, before he wasthirty years old, was elected to theUnited States Senate, of which hewas a member from 1806 to soon became recognized as theforemost chamj^ion of the cause ofinternal improvements and of thetariff measures, known as the American System. His speakership of theKentucky Assembly, his term as United States senator again, 1809-11, andas a member of the House of Eepresentatives in 1811, followed precedent, being a newcomer, he was chosen Speaker, and served untilhis resignation in 1814. He was as strenuous an advocate of the war withGreat Britain as Calhoun, and it has been stated that he was one of the com-missioners who negotiated the treaty of Ghent in 1814. The following yearhe was again elected to the House of Eepresentatives, and acted without abreak as Speaker until 1821. He was the most powerful advocate of the recog-. HENRY CLAY. (1777-1S5-J). DANIEL WEBSTER. 225 nition of the Spanish-American States in revolt, and but for Clay the MissouriCompromise would not have been prepared and adopted. Absent but a brief time from Congress, he again acted as Speaker in1823-25. President Adams appointed him his secretary of State, and heretired from office in 1829, but two years later entered the Senate from Ken-tucky. For the following twenty years he was the leader of the Whig party,opposed Jackson in the bank controversy, and secured the tariff compromise of1833 and the settlement with France in 1835. He retired from the Senate in1843, his nomination for the presidency following a year later. Once more heentered the Senate, in 1849, andbrought about the great compromise iof 1850. He died June 29, 1852. i Clays vain struggle for thepresidenc
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