On this day in 1850, Henry Clay, a Whig from Kentucky, rose in the Old Senate Chamber to advance what became known as the Compromise of 1850 — a proposal that, when later adopted, put off the ...

His role in putting together the Compromise of 1850, a series of resolutions limiting ... man in the Congress of the United States as Henry Clay in 1860-’61 there would, I feel sure, have ...

Senator Mitch McConnell spoke about Henry Clay and the discussions that took place during the Compromise of 1850. Javascript must be enabled in order to access C-SPAN videos. *This text was ...

Back when the powerful 19th-century senator Henry Clay was called “the great ... Clay found a last-minute compromise. And his Compromise of 1850 averted civil war for at least a decade.

Henry Clay crafted the Great Compromise of 1850 and the lessons from the document can be applied by today's leaders. How many of you are familiar with the name of Henry Clay? He was a Whig Party ...

Q: Why did you want to write about Henry Clay and the Compromise of 1850? {mosads}I was asked by a publisher to write about one of the important moments of American history that isn’t well-known.

Until 1901, Henry Clay in the U.S. Senate hung in an art ... Douglas of Illinois, the "Little Giant" who finalized the 1850 compromise after the senator from Kentucky collapsed.

Engineered by Henry Clay, a representative of Kentucky known ... In what would become known as the Compromise of 1850, neither of the sides got what they truly wanted. As future President James ...

Similarly, the price of compromise in 1850 was prolonged enslavement for millions. No one admired Henry Clay more than Abraham Lincoln. Still, while Lincoln’s fervent attachment to the United ...

Henry Clay was one of the most prominent and provocative ... Clay crafted the Missouri Compromise of 1821 and later the Great Compromise of 1850. His strategy worked and conflict did not come.

One of Kentucky’s most famous statesmen, Henry Clay, was born in Virginia ... Later, he played a key role in passing the Compromise of 1850 that postponed the slavery crisis again.