Such ranchers as Coble and Clay and the Bosler brothers carried him on their books as a cowhand even while he was receiving a much larger salary from parties unknown.

Clay was rolled to 1/4'' '' thickness.

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.

The institute was founded in 1998 through the sponsorship of Boston businessman Landon T. Clay.

Feeling that he was underpaid for the quality of his work for Silsbee ( at $ 8 a week ), the young draftsman quit and found work as a designer at the firm of Beers, Clay, and Dutton.

The existence and mechanism for ion selectivity was first postulated in the 1960s by Clay Armstrong.

Clay had come in fourth place and thus was not on the ballot, but he retained considerable power and influence as Speaker of the House.

Paul Nagel argues that his political acumen was not any less developed than others were in his day, and notes that Henry Clay, one of the era's most astute politicians, was a principal advisor to Adams and supporter throughout his presidency.

One of the issues which divided the administration was protective tariffs, of which Henry Clay was a leading advocate.

When war finally did break out, the war effort was led by the War Hawks in Congress under Clay at least as much as it was by Madison ; this accorded with the president's preference for checks and balances.

Monroe was part of the American Colonization Society formed in 1816, which members included Henry Clay and Andrew Jackson.

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.

Polk was a strong proponent of immediate annexation, while Clay seemed more equivocal and vacillating.

LeRoy Pope Walker of Alabama was made Secretary of War, after being recommended for this post by Clement Clay and William Yancey ( both of whom declined to accept cabinet positions themselves ).

Henry Clay Folger was head of the company until 1923, when he was succeeded by Herbert L. Pratt.

It was a close fight for Fittipaldi who secured the title with a fourth at the season-ending United States Grand Prix, putting him three points ahead of Ferrari's Clay Regazzoni.

After replacing his surname with an “ X ,” Clay was given his Muslim name, Muhammad Ali, by Elijah Muhammad.

While officials in Washington, D. C. thought the project had merit, and Secretary of State Henry Clay formally presented it to the Congress of the United States in 1826, the plan was not approved.

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.

For example, already in Sergio Corbucci's Minnesota Clay ( 1964 ) that appeared only two months after A Fistful of Dollars, you find an American style " tragic gunfighter " hero confronting two evil gangs, one Mexican and one Anglo, and ( just as in A Fistful of Dollars ) the leader of the latter is also the town sheriff.

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.

** Green Clay Smith, American temperance movement leader ( d. 1895 )

The three leading candidates were William Henry Harrison, a war hero and the most successful of Van Buren's opponents in the 1836 election ; Winfield Scott, another general, a hero of the War of 1812 and active in skirmishes with the British in 1837 and 1838 ; and Henry Clay, the Whigs ' congressional leader and former Speaker of the House.

Harrison had managed to distance himself from the losses, but Clay, as the party's philosophical leader, could not.

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.

Whig leader Henry Clay designed a compromise, which failed to pass in early 1850, due to the opposition of both pro-slavery southern Democrats, led by John C. Calhoun, and anti-slavery northern Whigs.

Abraham Lincoln, the Whig leader in Illinois, was a great admirer of Clay, saying he was " my ideal of a great man.

As the Congressional leader of the Democratic-Republican Party, Clay took charge of the agenda, especially as a " War Hawk " supporting the War of 1812 against the British Empire.

Calhoun immediately became a leader of the " War Hawks ," along with Speaker Henry Clay and South Carolina congressmen William Lowndes and Langdon Cheves.

Whig Party leader Henry Clay sided with Daniel Webster on these issues.

The Compromise of 1850, devised by Clay and Democratic leader Stephen Douglas, was designed to solve the controversy over the status of slavery in the vast new territories acquired from Mexico.

He was an orator and leader of the first class, able to stand his own with or against fellow senators Daniel Webster, Henry Clay, and John C. Calhoun.

* Clay Carroll ( 1961 ) 2 x MLB AS ; 1972 NL leader 37 saves ; MLB: 15 seasons 2. 94 ERA

Skinner himself worked as a miner for over 20 years, during which he became a NUM leader and Clay Cross Labour Party councillor.

Senator Henry Clay leader of the Whig Party and advocate for the American System.

This was the last time Clay would be nominated for president, and many Whigs believed that, following Clay's defeat, Crittenden was the new leader of their party.

The leader of this group was Speaker of the House Henry Clay of Kentucky.

Dominador Gomez, a Filipino labor leader, was authorized in 1905 by Governor General Henry Clay Ide to negotiate for the surrender of Sakay and his men.

The race was won by Swiss driver Clay Regazzoni in a Ferrari 312T by 42 seconds over team mate and championship points leader, Austrian driver Niki Lauda.

The first leader to receive this honor was former Speaker of the House of Representatives Henry Clay when he died in 1852.

Kentucky Senator Henry Clay became the acknowledged leader of the war hawks in Congress.

* Mary Barr Clay ( 1839 – 1924 )-Women's Suffrage movement leader

At that time, Sylvia Shemwell ( sister of Judy Clay ) replaced Doris ; while Cissy Houston took over from Dionne, with Dee Dee Warwick as the group ’ s official leader.