Clay, Cassius Marcellus

Life Span
to
Full name
Cassius Marcellus Clay
Place of Birth
Burial Place
Birth Date Certainty
Exact
Death Date Certainty
Exact
Gender
Male
Race
White
Sectional choice
North
Origins
Slave State
No. of Spouses
2
No. of Children
10
Family
Green Clay (father), Sally Lewis (mother), Mary Jane Warfield (first wife, 1833), Dora Richardson (second wife, 1894)
Education
Yale
Transylvania
Occupation
Politician
Diplomat
Attorney or Judge
Journalist
Relation to Slavery
White non-slaveholder
Political Parties
Democratic
Whig
Republican
Other Affiliations
Abolitionists (Anti-Slavery Society)
Government
Lincoln Administration (1861-65)
Diplomat
State legislature
Military
US military (Pre-Civil War)
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