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BIOGRAPHY Clay was born with a strong political predigree; he was the son of Clement Comer Clay , a former senator and governor of Alabama, and was a Third Cousin of Henry Clay . Clay attended the University Of Alabama At Tuscaloosa and graduated in 1834 . He obtained a law degree from the University Of Virginia in 1839 and was admitted to the bar in Alabama in 1840 . He was a member of the Alabama State House Of Representatives in 1842, 1844, and 1845. He then became a county judge in Madison County, Alabama and served from 1848 to 1850 . He then ran for a seat in the United States Congress in 1850 , but was not elected. He was elected to serve in the United States Senate in a term beginning March 4 1853 , but the legislature failed to elect someone in time to fill it, so that he served from November 29 1853 to January 21 1861 . He withdrew from the senate as Alabama seceded from the Union . He was subsequently elected Senator in the First Confederate Congress and served from 1861 until 1863 . Due to suspicions that he was involved in the assassination of Abraham Lincoln , he was imprisoned in Fortress Monroe in 1865 , where he stayed for about a year. He died in Madison County and is interred at Maple Hill Cemetery . REFERENCES |
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