Henry Clay
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Henry Clay was an American lawyer, statesman, and diplomat who represented Kentucky in both the United States House of Representatives and the United States Senate. He was the seventh House speaker as
Clay in 1848
View of Henry Clay's law office (1803–1810), Lexington, Kentucky
Portrait by Matthew Harris Jouett, 1818
Portrait by Edward Dalton Marchant, c. 1838
John Quincy Adams
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John Quincy Adams was the sixth president of the United States, serving from 1825 to 1829. He previously served as the eighth United States secretary of state from 1817 to 1825; minister to Great Brit
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…He finished with the fourth-most electoral votes in the multi-candidate 1824–1825 presidential election and used his position as speaker to help John Quincy Adams win the contingent election held to select the president. President Adams then appointed him to the position of Secretary of State. As a result, critics…
Daguerreotype, c. 1843–1848
John Quincy Adams, age 29 by John Singleton Copley
Louisa Catherine Johnson Adams by Gilbert Stuart, 1821-26
1815 US passport issued by John Quincy Adams at London