revealing a pantheon of larger-than-life senators from the years preceding the Civil War. At the painting's center, towering over his colleagues, stands Kentucky's Henry Clay, careworn and ...

The Greater Compromiser,” Henry Clay was born in Virginia but built a large political legacy in Kentucky. The Herald-Leader’s yearlong series of Lexington’s 250th anniversary spotlights his life.

Clay home. The Susan M ... a perfect example of country architecture before the Civil War, with its slave quarters convenient in the rear," the reporter wrote in the 1929 article.

The Whig Party formed out of the National Republican Party, the leaders of which were John Quincy Adams and Henry Clay ... Lincoln In the midst of the Civil War, the Republican Party asked ...