The " New Road " ( still known by this name ) ran east to west from Wilmington to the Greenbank Mill on the Red Clay Creek.

A number of families with abolitionist leanings came from Platte and Clay counties, Missouri, came to the area, which was first known as North Cedar, taking its name from the creek that ran one mile south of Tippinville.

After a time in private life, he joined the opposition to John Quincy Adams and Henry Clay, in 1824 ; he ran for Senate again in 1825, and was defeated, but appointed Governor for three one-year terms in 1827 ; he was succeeded by John Floyd, in the year of his death.

“ Clay County is one of the strongest Republican counties in Kansas, I think number one, two, or three, so I didn ’ t even have an opponent in the general election, and I didn ’ t have an opponent when I ran for my second term .”

Sensing that he had made history, Clay quickly ran to the ropes to remind sportswriters that he had told them so all along, shouting " eat your words!

The Clay Springs and Apopka Railroad ran from the Florida Central and Peninsular Railroad's Orlando Division southeast of Apopka, north and northeast across the Florida Midland Railroad at East Apopka, to Clay Springs ( now Wekiwa Springs ).

He ran on the ticket headed by Henry Clay Warmoth, formerly of Illinois.

Albery was the author of a large number of other plays and adaptations, including Coquettes ( 1870 ); Pickwick, a four-act drama ( based on Dickens's The Pickwick Papers ( 1871 ); Pink Dominos ( 1877 ), a farce that ran for an extremely successful 555 performances and was one of a series of adaptations from the French which he made for the Criterion Theatre, where his wife, the actress Mary Moore ( who after his death became Lady Charles Wyndham ( 1861 — 1931 )), played the leading parts ; Jingle ( a farcical version of Pickwick ), produced at the Lyceum in 1878 ; and Oriana ( with music by Frederic Clay ).

A portion of the old Baltimore and Ohio Railroad, now CSX Transportation crosses through Stanton, the Wilmington and Western Railroad runs along Red Clay Creek to Hockessin, and the Pomeroy and Newark Railroad once ran along White Clay Creek.

From the early 1830s, Lincoln was a steadfast Whig and professed to friends in 1861 to be, " an old line Whig, a disciple of Henry Clay ".

Realizing Clay was unlikely to win the presidency, Lincoln, who had pledged in 1846 to serve only one term in the House, supported General Zachary Taylor for the Whig nomination in the 1848 presidential election.

Polk was the surprise ( dark horse ) candidate for president in 1844, defeating Henry Clay of the rival Whig Party by promising to annex Texas.

Polk's Whig opponent in the 1844 presidential election was Henry Clay of Kentucky.

An impressive demonstration occurred on May 1, 1844, when news of the Whig Party's nomination of Henry Clay for U. S. President was telegraphed from the party's convention in Baltimore to the Capitol Building in Washington.

The Whig Party counted among its members such national political luminaries as Daniel Webster, William Henry Harrison, and their preeminent leader, Henry Clay of Kentucky.

The Republicans who formed the Whig party, led by Henry Clay and John Quincy Adams, drew on a Jeffersonian tradition of compromise and balance in government, national unity, territorial expansion, and support for a national transportation network and domestic manufacturing.

Clay and his Whig allies failed in repeated attempts to continue the Second Bank of the United States, which Jackson denounced as a monopoly and from which he abruptly removed all government deposits.

Clay was the unquestioned leader of the Whig party nationwide and in Washington, but he was vulnerable to Jacksonian allegations that he associated with the upper class at a time when white males without property had the right to vote and wanted someone more like themselves.

Horace Greeley's New York Tribune — the leading Whig paper — endorsed Clay for President and Fillmore for Governor, 1844

The Compromise of 1850 had been first proposed by the Whig Henry Clay of Kentucky.

Henry Clay and the Whig Party ( 1936 )

* April 14 – The Whig Party is officially named by United States Senator Henry Clay.

This process did not yet lead to formal party organization, but later, the faction led by Andrew Jackson would evolve into the Democratic Party, while the factions led by John Quincy Adams and Henry Clay would become the National Republican Party and then the Whig Party.

Had the convention been held in the spring, when the economic downturn led to a string of Whig victories, Clay would have had much greater support.

In the United States presidential election of 1844, Democrat James K. Polk defeated Whig Henry Clay in a close contest that turned on foreign policy, with Polk favoring the annexation of Texas and Clay opposed.

Polk went on to win a narrow victory over Whig candidate Henry Clay, in part because Clay had taken a stand against expansion, although economic issues were also of great importance.

Taylor ultimately declared himself a Whig, and easily took their nomination, receiving 171 delegate votes to defeat Henry Clay, Winfield Scott, Daniel Webster and others.

His uncle, Theodore Frelinghuysen ( 1787 – 1862 ), was Attorney General of New Jersey from 1817 to 1829, was a U. S. Senator from New Jersey from 1829 to 1835, was the Whig candidate for Vice President of the United States on the Henry Clay ticket in the 1844 Presidential election, and was Chancellor of New York University from 1839 until 1850 and president of Rutgers College from 1850 to 1862.

The compromise, drafted by Whig Senator Henry Clay of Kentucky and brokered by Clay and Democrat Stephen Douglas, avoided secession or civil war and reduced sectional conflict for four years.

The United States presidential election of 1832 saw incumbent President Andrew Jackson, candidate of the Democratic Party, easily win re-election against Henry Clay of Kentucky.

Clay, the party's most prominent congressional leader, was chosen on the first ballot despite having lost two prior presidential elections: in 1824 to John Quincy Adams as a Democrat-Republican, then in 1832 to Andrew Jackson as a National Republican.

In 1832 the National Republicans unanimously nominated Clay for the presidency.

On December 31, 1840, he married Margaretta Sergeant, daughter of John Sergeant, running mate of Henry Clay in the 1832 presidential election.

Published versions from the period run as long as 66 verses, ranging from more boastful doggerel like the original version, to an endorsement of President Andrew Jackson ( known as " Old Hickory "); his Whig opponent in the 1832 election was Henry Clay:

Biddle, at the urging of Henry Clay and other Bank supporters, upped the ante when he applied for the Bank's re-charter in January 1832.

This issue was featured at the December 1831 National Republican convention in Baltimore which nominated Henry Clay for president, and the proposal to re-charter was formally introduced into Congress on January 6, 1832.

In February 1832 Henry Clay, back in the Senate after a two decades absence, made a three day long speech calling for a new tariff schedule and an expansion of his American System.

Crittenden went on to manage both the unsuccessful gubernatorial campaign of Richard Aylett Buckner and the campaign to help Clay win Kentucky in the 1832 presidential election.

Political support began with Alexander Hamilton and his Report on Manufactures at the turn of the century, and continued with the Whig Party, led by Henry Clay from 1832 until its demise in 1852, and then by the Republican Party from its formation in 1856.

During Clay ’ s administration, the United States Army removed the Creek Indians from Southeastern Alabama under the terms of the 1832 Treaty of Cusseta.

The nominations made there for the coming 1832 campaign were Henry Clay for President and John Sergeant for Vice President.

Henry Clay Work ( October 1, 1832 – June 8, 1884 ) was an American composer and songwriter.

Charles Colcord was born near Cane Ridge, Paris, Bourbon County, Kentucky to Col. William Rogers Colcord ( November 26, 1827-January 10, 1901 ) and Maria Elizabeth Clay ( March 1832, Paris, KY-?, Denver CO ).

In 1832, Henry Clay, Jr. married Julia Prather ( 1814 – 1840 ), with whom he had five children.

Their daughter Anne Brown Clay ( 1837 – 1917 ) married Major Henry Clay McDowell ( 1832 – 1899 ).

Clay intended to use the rechartering of the bank as a topic in the upcoming election of 1832.

* Henry Clay of Kentucky ( born in Virginia ) – 1824 election, 1832 election, 1844 election