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Mathews-Williams Family Genealogy
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"CLAY, Henry, (father of James Brown Clay), a Senator and a Representative from Kentucky; born in the district known as 'the Slashes,' Hanover County, Virginia, April 12, 1777; attended the public schools; studied law in Richmond, Virginia; admitted to the bar in 1797 and commenced practice in Lexington, Kentucky; member State House of Representatives 1803; elected to the United States Senate to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of John Adair and served from November 19, 1806 to March 3, 1807, despite being younger than the constitutional age limit of thirty years; member, State House of Representatives 1808-1809, and served as speaker in 1809; again elected to the U.S. Senate to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of Buckner Thruston and served from January 4, 1810 to March 3, 1811; elected as a Republican to the Twelfth and Thirteenth Congresses and served from March 4, 1811, to January 19, 1814, when he resigned; Speaker of the House of Representatives (Twelfth and Thirteenth Congresses); appointed one of the commissioners to negotiate the treaty of peace with Great Britain in 1814; elected as a Republican to the Fourteenth, Fifteenth, and Sixteenth Congresses (March 4, 1815 - March 3, 1821); Speaker of the House of Representatives (Fourteenth, Fifteenth, and Sixteenth Congresses); elected to the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Congresses and served from March 3, 1823, to March 6, 1825, when he resigned; again served as Speaker of the House of Representatives (Eighteenth Congress); appointed Secretary of State by President John Quincy Adams 1825-1829; elected as a Whig to the United States Senate on November 10, 1831, to fill the vacancy in the term commencing March 4, 1831; reelected in 1836 and served from November 10, 1831 until March 31, 1842, when he resigned; chairman, Committee on Foreign Relations (Twenty-third and Twenty-fourth Congresses), Committee on Finance (Twenty-seventh Congress); unsuccessful presidential candidate of the Democratic-Republican Party in 1824, of the National Republican Party in 1832, and of the Whig party in 1844; again elected to the United States Senate and served from March 4, 1849, until his death in Washington, DC, June 29, 1852; funeral services held in the Chamber of the Senate; interment in Lexington Cemetery, Lexington, Kentucky." (Source: "Biographical Directory of the United States Congress").
James Brown Clay was a member of Congress from Kentucky. He was the U.S. Minister to Portugal.
"CLAY, James Brown, (son of Henry Clay), a Representative from Kentucky; born in Washington, DC, November 9, 1817; pursued preparatory studies; attended Transylvania University, Lexington, Kentucky, and Kenyon College, Gambier, Ohio; clerk in a countinghouse in Boston 1832-1834; studied law at Lexington Law School; was admitted to the bar and practiced with his father in Lexington; Charge d' Affaires to Portugal from August 1, 1849, to July 19, 1850; was a resident of Missouri in 1851 and 1852, when he returned to Lexington, Kentucky; elected as a Democrat to the Thirty-fifth Congress (March 4, 1857 - March 3, 1859); was not a candidate for renomination in 1858; declined the appointment by President Buchanan to a mission to Germany; member of the peace convention of 1861 held in Washington, DC, in an effort to devise means to prevent the impending war; during the Civil War identified himself with the Confederacy; died in Montreal, Canada, January 26, 1864, where he had gone for his health; interment in Lexington Cemetery, Lexington, Kentucky". (Source: "Biographical Directory of the United States Congress").
William Irvine Cabell was educated for the profession of medicine. He succeeded to the practice of his father. In comparatively early life he attached himself to the Episcopal Church and became a vestryman of the Lexington Parish, Amherst County, Virginia.