Henry Clay
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Henry Clay: The Essential American
By Jeanne T. Heidler, David S. HeidlerSmith, Nanette Price, 282,322, 402,412,417 Smith, Perry, 337 Smith, Samuel, 240–41,253 South Carolina elections in 208,288, 307, 378 nullification in, 227–28, 238,240,242, 251-56, 257 secessionists im, 482 and tariffs, 227–28, ...
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Henry Clay: The Man Who Would Be President
By James C. KlotterWhen Jackson confidant (and Clay enemy) John Henry Eaton married Margaret “Peggy” O'Neale Timberlake on New Year's Day 1829, he set into motion a series of events that would have important political repercussions, some helpful to Clay ...
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Henry Clay: Statesman for the Union
By Robert Vincent Remini"Great biography leaves an indelible view of the subject. After Remini's masterful portrait, Clay is unforgettable." -Donald B. Cole, Newsday
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Henry Clay: The Essential American
By Jeanne T. Heidler, David S. HeidlerTaylor to Clay, November 17, 1848, Clay to Mercer, December 10, 1848, Clay to Hughes, December 16, 1848, Clay to Stephenson, January 31, 1849, ibid., 10:559, 561, 563, 568. 30. Clay to Hughes, January 26, 1849, ibid., 10:567. 31.
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Henry Clay: The Man Who Would Be President
By James C. KlotterMooney, Crawford, 1–3, IO-II, 236; Clay to Charles Tait, August 19, 1814, and Clay to John Sloan, October 28, 1822, ... David F. Musto, “The Youth of John Quincy Adams,” Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society II3 (1969): 269; ...
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Henry Clay: America's Greatest Statesman
By Harlow Giles Unger" Explosive, revealing, and richly illustrated, Henry Clay is the story of one of the most courageous-and powerful-political leaders in American History.
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Henry Clay: Statesman for the Union
By Robert Vincent ReminiExamines the life and work of the statesman and discusses his repeated failed attempts to become president
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Henry Clay: The Great Compromiser
By Howard Walter CaldwellOne of the many publications issued by the Instructor Publishing Company (later called F.A. Owens Publishing Company), based in Dansville, New York, this small biography of Henry Clay was written...
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Henry Clay: The Great Compromiser
By Michael BurganDiscusses the life and career of the American statesman who, through political compromise, kept the Union together during the early nineteenth century.
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Henry Clay: Leader in Congress
By Helen Stone PetersonYou'll never whistle, Henry, his young friend told him. 'Your mouth is too wide. But you laugh fine.'Henry Clay grew up on a farm in Virginia, then moved to Kentucky. As a lawyer he still 'laughed fine.' And he spoke with thunder and magic.
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Henry Clay: The Man Who Would Be President
By James C. Klotter... Jacksonian Indian Policy,” FCHQ 60 (1986): 221. 3 Alfred Cave, “Abuse of Power: Andrew Jackson and the Indian ... Historical Dictionary of the Jacksonian Era and Manifest Destiny (Lanham, MD: Scarecrow Press, 2006), 253–55. The following ...