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United States presidential election of 1844 - Britannica.com  American presidential election held in 1844 in which Democratic candidate James K. Polk defeated Whig candidate Henry Clay with 170 electoral votes to...
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Presidential Election of 1844 - 270toWin  The United States presidential election of 1844 saw Democrat James Knox Polk defeat Whig Henry Clay in a close contest that turned on foreign policy, with...
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Election of 1844 - United States History  The role of Election of 1844 in the history of the United States of America. ... The frontrunners for the presidential nominations in both parties, Henry Clay (Whig)...
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1844 Presidential Elections - History Central  The Election Results of 1844 Polk vs Clay. ... The election of 1844 was fought over American expansion. ... The Whigs nominated Henry Clay, unanimously.
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United States presidential election, 1844 - Wikipedia  On July 27, 1844, Henry Clay, in the midst of his campaign against James K. Polk, released a position...
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Henry Clay - U.S. Representative - Biography.com  Apr 2, 2014 ... Henry Clay was a 19th century Congressman and secretary of state who had ... U.S. Representative (17771852) ... His political career kicked off in 1803 when he was elected to the ... In 1811 Clay was elected to the U.S. House of Representatives, .... If you see something that doesn't look right, contact us!
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Henry Clay - U.S. Representative - Biography.com  Apr 2, 2014 ... Henry Clay was a 19th century Congressman and secretary of state who had ... U.S. Representative (17771852). 189 ... lawyer before becoming a Kentucky senator and then speaker of the House of Representatives. ... In all, Clay would come to serve multiple terms in the U.S. House (181114, 181521,...
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Henry Clay - U.S. Representative - Biography.com  Apr 2, 2014 ... Henry Clay was a 19th century Congressman and secretary of state who had ... Andrew Jackson Rivalry; Another White House Run; Final Years ... before becoming a Kentucky senator and then speaker of the House of Representatives. ... returning to Congress, and pushed for the Compromise of 1850, with...
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Lying in state - Wikipedia  The process of lying in state at the Capitol is as follows. ... 1852  Henry Clay, long-serving Senator and Representative, Secretary of ... Parks became the second African-American and the first woman to lie in...
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Henry Clay Folger | American lawyer and business executive ...  Mar 31, 2016 ... ... the founder of the Folger Shakespeare Library in Washington, D.C. Henry's ... is named for Henry Clay Folger, chairman of the Standard Oil...
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Henry Clay - Wikipedia  Henry Clay, Sr. (April 12, 1777  June 29, 1852) was an American lawyer and planter, politician, and skilled orator who represented Kentucky in both the United States Senate ... He continued to advocate his American System, and become a leader of the .... Biddle, Clay submitted the Supreme Court's first amicus curiae.
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Martin Van Buren - U.S. Presidents - HISTORY.com  He rose quickly in New York politics, winning a U.S. Senate seat in 1821 and presiding ... 1840, Van Buren ran again unsuccessfully in 1844 (when he lost the Democratic ... The Jackson-Van Buren ticket won easily over Henry Clay of the opposition ... In 1848, Van Buren ran as the Free Soil candidate for president; Charles...
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Henry David Thoreau  Mar 30, 2014 ... Harvard Square Library ... Henry David Thoreau (July 12, 1817-May 6, 1862) was a person of many ... She quit First Parish, but found that her free-thinking religious views were ... and drink in the soft influences and sublime revelations of Nature. ... In hopes of furthering Thoreau's career as a writer, Emerson...
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United States presidential election, 1844 - Wikipedia  The United States presidential election of 1844 was the 15th quadrennial presidential election, ... The Whig Party nominee Henry Clay adopted an anti-annexation platform on the principle of preserving North-South sectional ..... Clay's "waffling" on Texas may have cost him the 41 electoral votes of New York and Michigan.
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Henry Clay - United States History  As Speaker of the House, Henry Clay was a prominent War Hawk, pushing for ... which the Great Pacificator" or Great Compromiser" managed temporarily to tame sectional passions. ... Regarding War Hawks ... Books You May Like Include: ---- ... respective regions--Daniel Webster, Henry Clay, and John C. Calhoun repr.
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Compromise of 1850 - Civil War Trust  Clay's Resolutions January 29, 1850. The Compromise of 1850 was a set of laws passed dealing with the controversial issue of slavery. Below are the resolutions created by Senator Henry Clay to bring forth a compromise on the matter.
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Henry Clay - U.S. Representative - Biography.com  Apr 2, 2014 ... He was secretary of state under John Quincy Adams in the 1820s, later ... His political career kicked off in 1803 when he was elected to the Kentucky General Assembly. ... One of those included Aaron Burr, whom Clay represented in 1806 in ... In 1811 Clay was elected to the U.S. House of Representatives,...
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Henry Clay - Wikipedia  Henry Clay, Sr. (April 12, 1777  June 29, 1852) was an American lawyer and planter, politician ... After serving two brief stints in the Senate, Clay won election to the House of Representatives in 1810 and was elected ...... After Tyler told Whig Congressman Alexander Stuart that he would sign a similar bill that addressed his...
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James K. Polk - Wikipedia  James Knox Polk (November 2, 1795  June 15, 1849) was the 11th President of the United ... Polk was the surprise (dark horse) candidate for president in 1844, defeating Henry Clay of the ... He died of cholera three months later. .... Polk made his first major speech on March 13, 1826, in which he said that the Electoral...
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Henry Clay - Wikipedia  Henry Clay, Sr. (April 12, 1777  June 29, 1852) was an American lawyer and planter, statesman, and skilled orator who represented Kentucky in both the United States Senate and House of Representatives. He served three non-consecutive terms as Speaker of the House of ... Clay maneuvered House voting in favor of John Quincy Adams, who...
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Primary Source Analysis  One primary source that I would like to use is Peter Rothermel's painting of Patrick. Henry giving a ... the Virginia Resolves, a series of resolutions protesting the Stamp Act. Although this painting ... The actual speech given by Patrick Henry on May 29, 1765 has become the stuff of legend. ... (Henry was interrupted by cries of.