Clement Comer Clay
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United States Senator from Alabama |
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In office June 19, 1837 – November 15, 1841 |
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| Preceded by | John McKinley |
| Succeeded by | Arthur P. Bagby |
| 8th Governor of Alabama | |
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In office November 21, 1835 – July 17, 1837 |
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| Preceded by | John Gayle |
| Succeeded by | Hugh McVay |
| Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Alabama's 1st district |
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In office March 4, 1829 – March 3, 1835 |
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| Preceded by | Gabriel Moore |
| Succeeded by | Reuben Chapman |
| Member of the Alabama House of Representatives | |
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In office 1827-1828 |
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December 17, 1789 Halifax County, Virginia |
| Died | September 7, 1866 (aged 76) Huntsville, Alabama |
| Political party | Democratic |
| Spouse(s) | Susanna Claiborne Withers (1798–1866) (her death) |
| Alma mater | East Tennessee University |
| Profession | Politician,Governor of Alabama |
| Religion | Southern Baptist |
Clement Comer Clay (December 17, 1789 – September 7, 1866) was the eighth Governor of the U.S. state of Alabama from 1835 to 1837. An attorney, judge and politician, he also was elected to the state legislature, as well as to the House of Representatives and the US Senate.
Clay was born in Halifax County, Virginia. His father, William Clay, was an officer in the American Revolutionary War, who moved to Grainger County, Tennessee. Clay attended the local schools and graduated from East Tennessee College in 1807. He was admitted to the bar in 1809 and moved to Huntsville, Alabama, where he began a law practice in 1811.
Clay married Susannah Claiborne Withers on April 4, 1815. They had three sons: Clement Claiborne Clay, John Withers Clay, and Hugh Lawson Clay.
Clay served in the Alabama Territorial Legislature in 1817–1818. He was a state court judge and served in the Alabama House of Representatives.
In 1828 he was elected to the U.S. House of Representatives, serving from March 4, 1829 and through re-elections until March 3, 1835, when he started as governor of Alabama.
In 1835 Clay was elected Governor. Clay's term as governor ended early when he was appointed by the state legislature to the United States Senate in 1837 (this was before popular election of senators).
In 1836, Governor Clay signed a legislative act which chartered Spring Hill College in Mobile, Alabama, the third oldest Jesuit college in the United States. The charter gave it "full power to grant or confer such degree or degrees in the arts and sciences, or in any art or science as are usually granted or conferred by other seminaries of learning in the United States." The college resulted from the strong French Catholic traditions in the city, founded as a French colony.
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