Henry clay biography timeline book

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Henry Clay: Statesman for the Union

December 29, 2023

Robert Remini is best known for his exhaustive trilogy on Andrew Jackson, turns his attention to Jackson's chief rival and longtime antagonist, Henry Clay. While I liked Remini's volumes on Jackson, I found some flaws in his overall portrayal of Jackson, and considered him to be somewhat too sympathetic at times towards his subject. Thus I was wondering if his effort on Clay would be similar. To my pleasant surprise, this was an outstanding biography of a political titan in he first half of the nineteenth century.

Aside from Jackson, three other men dominated the American political scene from the War of 1812 up to the early 1805s: Clay, Daniel Webster, and John C. Calhoun. Of those three, Clay seemed at the time - and seems to me now - to be a slight step ahead of the other two. He was a statesman of the first order, yet simultaneously partisan, petty, and blinded ambition. Clay was immensely talented at legislating, as evident when, on his first day in Congress in 1811, he was elected Speaker of the House. Imagine that happening today. As Remini writes on page 84: "...Henry Clay seemed to know instinctively the time-honored aphorism that the purpose of politics is power, that the purpose of power is to govern, and that th

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Biography of Henry Clay

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George D. Prentice’s Biography of Henry Clay was published by Samuel Hanmer Jr. and John Jay Phelps of Hartford, Connecticut in 1831. The biography was prepared in anticipation of Henry Clay’s 1832 presidential campaign as the National Republican nominee. The work recounts his legal and political career, outlines his stance of various policies, and served to educate the public about his history.

The Copp Collection contains about 150 books of early American imprint and shows a wide range of reading matter typical of a New England Puritan family living in a port town. Literacy was expected of many New Englanders, as Puritan doctrine required everyone to read the Bible. The abundance of multiple Bibles, psalms, hymnodies, sermons, and morality tales reflects the Copp’s religious beliefs. Other highlights of the library include the works of Shakespeare, almanacs, historical and political texts, and travel narratives.

The Copp Collection contains a variety of household objects that the Copp family of Connecticut used from around 1700 until the mid-1800s. Part of the Puritan Great Migration from England to Boston, the family eventually made their home in New London County, Connecticut, where their textiles, clothes, utensils, ceramics, bo