Clay, Henry 1777-1852

Overview

Works:	2,650 works in 4,629 publications in 1 language and 74,708 library holdings
Genres:	Biography Speeches Records and correspondence History Controversial literature Census data Sources
Roles:	Author, Translator, Dedicatee, Correspondent, Editor, Composer, Honoree, Signer
Classifications:	E340.C6, 923.273

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Most widely held works about Henry Clay

Life of Henry Clay by Carl Schurz( Book )
Henry Clay and the art of American politics by Clement Eaton( Book )
The great triumvirate : Webster, Clay, and Calhoun by Merrill D Peterson( Book )
Henry Clay : statesman for the Union by Robert V Remini( Book )
Henry Clay : the essential American by David Stephen Heidler( Book )

The life of Henry Clay by Glyndon G Van Deusen( Book )
A wicked war : Polk, Clay, Lincoln, and the 1846 U.S. invasion of Mexico by Amy S Greenberg( Book )
America's great debate : Henry Clay, Stephen A. Douglas, and the compromise that preserved the Union by Fergus M Bordewich( Book )
At the edge of the precipice : Henry Clay and the compromise that saved the Union by Robert V Remini( Book )
The life and public services of Henry Clay, down to 1848 by Epes Sargent( Book )
As God made them; portraits of some nineteenth-century Americans by Gamaliel Bradford( Book )
Henry Clay and the Whig Party by George Rawlings Poage( Book )
Henry Clay, America's greatest statesman by Harlow G Unger( Book )
Party leaders : sketches of Thomas Jefferson, Alex'r Hamilton, Andrew Jackson, Henry Clay, John Randolph of Roanoke, including notices of many other distinguished American statesmen by Joseph G Baldwin( Book )
Biography of Henry Clay by George D Prentice( Book )
Henry Clay and the American system by Maurice G Baxter( Book )
The life and times of Henry Clay by Calvin Colton( Book )
The private correspondence of Henry Clay by Henry Clay( Book )
The life and speeches of Henry Clay by Henry Clay( Book )
Familiar letters to Henry Clay of Kentucky : describing a winter in the West Indies by Joseph John Gurney( Book )

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Most widely held works by Henry Clay

Speech of Henry Clay : in defence of the American system, against the British colonial system : with an appendix of documents referred to in the speech by Henry Clay( Book )

35 editions published between 1832 and 2010 in English and held by 213 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Speech of the Hon. Henry Clay, on the subject of the removal of the deposites by Henry Clay( Book )

28 editions published between 1833 and 2016 in English and held by 181 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Speech of the Hon. Henry Clay, of Kentucky : on taking up his compromise resolutions on the subject of slavery : delivered in Senate, Feb. 5th & 6th, 1850 : as reported by the National intelligencer by Henry Clay( Book )

27 editions published in 1850 in English and Undetermined and held by 168 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Familiar letters to Henry Clay of Kentucky : describing a winter in the West Indies by Joseph John Gurney( Book )

3 editions published in 1840 in English and held by 161 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Speech of the Hon. Henry Clay, of Kentucky, in the House of Representatives of the United States, on the 8th day of January, 1813 : on the bill for raising an additional military force of twenty thousand men for one year by Henry Clay( Book )

12 editions published in 1813 in English and held by 143 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

The speeches of Henry Clay, delivered in the Congress of the United States; to which is prefixed a biographical memoir; with an appendix containing his speeches at Lexington and Lewisburgh, and before the Colonization society at Washington; together with his address to his constituents, on the subject of the late presidential election by Henry Clay( Book )

12 editions published between 1827 and 1832 in English and held by 105 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Speech in support of an American system for the protection of American industry; delivered in the House of Representatives, on the 30th and 31st of March, 1824 by Henry Clay( Book )

17 editions published between 1824 and 1980 in English and held by 99 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

To the people of the congressional district composed of the counties of Fayette, Woodford, and Clarke, in Kentucky by Henry Clay( Book )

11 editions published in 1825 in English and Undetermined and held by 99 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Speeches of the Hon. Henry Clay, of the Congress of the United States by Henry Clay( Book )

6 editions published between 1842 and 2012 in English and held by 87 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

The private correspondence of Henry Clay by Henry Clay( Book )

16 editions published between 1855 and 2012 in English and held by 85 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Speech of Henry Clay, of Kentucky : on the bill imposing additional duties, as depositaries, in certain cases, on public officers : in the Senate of the United States, Sept. 25, 1837 by Henry Clay( Book )

13 editions published between 1837 and 2005 in English and held by 75 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

A remonstrance to the Congress of the United States on the subject of the decision of the Supreme Court of the United States on the occupying claimant laws of Kentucky by Kentucky( Book )

8 editions published in 1824 in English and held by 73 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Remarks of Mr. Clay, of Kentucky, on introducing his propositions to compromise, on the slavery question : in the Senate of the United States, January 29, 1850 by Henry Clay( Book )

9 editions published between 1850 and 2015 in English and held by 69 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Speech of Mr. Clay, of Kentucky : establishing a deliberate design, on the part of the late and present executive of the United States, to break down the whole banking system of the United States, commencing with the Bank of the United States and terminating with the state banks, and to create on their ruins a government treasury bank, under exclusive control of the executive, and in reply to the speech of the Hon. J.C. Calhoun, of South Carolina, supporting that treasury bank by Henry Clay( Book )

13 editions published between 1828 and 1838 in English and held by 64 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Speech of the Hon. Henry Clay, before the American colonization society, in the hall of the House of representatives, January 20, 1827 by Henry Clay( Book )

9 editions published in 1827 in English and held by 50 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Mr. Clay's speech in support of an American system for the protection of American industry : delivered, March 30th and 31st, 1824 by Henry Clay( Book )

7 editions published between 1824 and 1827 in English and held by 37 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Speech of the Hon. W.C. Preston, of So. Carolina, on the veto power and in reply to Mr. Clay, of Kentucky : delivered in the Senate of the U.S., April, 1842 by William C Preston( Book )

9 editions published between 1842 and 2005 in English and held by 36 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Letter to the Hon. Henry Clay, president of the American Colonization Society, and Sir Thomas Fowell Buxton, chairman of the General Committee of the African Civilization Society, on the colonization and civilization of Africa. With other documents on the same subject by Ralph Randolph Gurley( Book )

8 editions published between 1841 and 2005 in English and held by 35 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Prospects on the Rubicon. letters on the prevailing excitement in South Carolina : on the means employed to produce it, on the causes that led to the depreciation of the great staple of the state, and on the misconception of the effects of the tariff : addressed to the Hon. H. Clay by Mathew Carey( Book )

9 editions published in 1832 in English and held by 24 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

The life and speeches of Henry Clay by Henry Clay( Book )

4 editions published between 1843 and 1844 in English and held by 14 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

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