Henry Clay

Examples of Henry Clay in the following topics:

• The Role of the Government

  • Congressman Henry Clay was the primary advocate of this system, which had an explicitly federalist agenda; Clay was supported by the Whig party, and opposed by Jeffersonian Republicans.
  • Henry Clay says "Walk in and see the new improved grand original American System!
  • Henry Clay was a lawyer, politician, and skilled orator who represented Kentucky separately in both the Senate and in the House of Representatives.

• Madison and the Pressure for War

  • The primary leaders of the group were Speaker of the House Henry Clay of Kentucky and John C.
  • A portrait of Henry Clay, the leader of the war hawks' western faction, painted after the War of 1812.

• Economic Nationalism

  • As later defined by Senator Henry Clay, who became known as the "Father of the American System," the American System unified the nation north to south, east to west, and city to farmer.
  • The name "American System" was coined by Henry Clay of the Whig Party to distinguish the school of thought from the competing theory of economics at the time, the British System, represented by Adam Smith in his work An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
  • Henry Clay is considered the Father of the American System of economics.

• Service to Constituents

  • power in the chamber, lawmakers who spend serious time along the rail of the House floor or in the Senate cloakroom ministering to the needs of their colleagues – famous legislator Henry Clay in the mid-nineteenth century was described as an "issue entrepreneur" who looked for issues to serve his ambitions

• The Election of 1824

  • A third candidate, Henry Clay, the speaker of the House of Representatives, hailed from Kentucky and represented the western states.
  • Adams won 84, Crawford 41, and Clay 37.
  • House Speaker Clay did not want to see his rival, Jackson, become president and therefore worked within the House to secure the presidency for Adams, convincing many to cast their vote for the New Englander.
  • Once in office, Adams elevated Henry Clay to the post of secretary of state.
  • Jackson and his followers accused Adams and Clay of striking a corrupt bargain.

• Eligibility of Congressmen

  • As a result, three senators who failed to meet the age qualification were nevertheless admitted to the Senate: Henry Clay (aged 29 in 1806), Armistead Thomson Mason (aged 28 in 1816), and John Eaton (aged 28 in 1818).
  • As a result, three senators who failed to meet the age qualification were nevertheless admitted to the Senate: Henry Clay (aged 29 in 1806), Armistead Thomson Mason (aged 28 in 1816), and John Eaton (aged 28 in 1818).
  • Henry Waxman, and House Ways and Means Committee Chair Rep.

• The Bank War and Economic Boom

  • With the Bank charter due to expire in 1836, the president of the Bank, Nicholas Biddle, in alliance with the National Republicans under Senators Henry Clay (KY) and Daniel Webster (MA), decided to make rechartering a referendum on the legitimacy of the institution in the general election of 1832.
  • The Jacksonians successfully mobilized both their "hard money" and "paper money" factions in the anti-Bank campaign, allowing Jackson to score an overwhelming victory against Henry Clay.

• The Election of 1840

  • In the wake of the Panic of 1837, William Henry Harrison won the Election of 1840 with his "log cabin campaign" appeal to ordinary people.
  • The three leading candidates were William Henry Harrison, a war hero and the most successful of Van Buren's opponents in the 1836 election; Winfield Scott, another general and a hero of the War of 1812 who was active in skirmishes with the British in 1837 and 1838; and Henry Clay, the Whigs' congressional leader and former Speaker of the House.
  • Clay led on the first ballot, but circumstances conspired to deny him the nomination.
  • Harrison had managed to distance himself from the losses, but Clay, as the party's philosophical leader, could not.
  • After being turned down by several Southern Clay supporters, the convention finally found a Southern nominee who had faithfully supported Clay throughout the convention who was willing to run: former Senator John Tyler of Virginia.

• Modeling

  • The most commonly used modeling clays are ceramic, oil-based, polymer, and paper clay.
  • Ceramic clays are water-based and made from clay minerals mixed with a combination of other raw materials.
  • Paper clay is any of these clay bodies, to which a small percentage of processed cellulose fiber has been added.
  • Oil-based clay is made from a combination of oils, waxes and clay minerals.
  • Despite being called clay, it generally contains no clay minerals.

• Ceramics

  • Long clays are cohesive (sticky) and have high plasticity; short clays are less cohesive and have lower plasticity.
  • Clays used for porcelain are generally of lower plasticity and are shorter than many other pottery clays.
  • When dry, the solid clay can then also be removed.
  • The first step of pressing the rough ball of clay downward and inward into perfect rotational symmetry is called centering the clay.
  • Wares can be constructed by hand from coils of clay, combining flat slabs of clay, or pinching solid balls of clay or some combination of these.