Clement Claiborne Clay, Jr.

Confederate Senator, Alabama, 1861-1863

Born: December 13, 1816, Huntsville, Alabama.

• University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, Alabama, graduate, 1834
  
• Law Department, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia, graduate, 1839.
  
• Admitted to the bar, and commenced law practice in Huntsville, Alabama, 1840.
  
• Member of the Alabama State House of Representatives, 1842, 1844, and 1845.
  
• Judge of the County Court of Madison County, Alabama. 1846-1848.
  
• Unsuccessful candidate from Alabama for election, 1850, to the Thirty-second U. S. Congress.
  
• Presidential Elector on the Democratic ticket of Pierce and King, 1852.
  
• Elected from Alabama as a Democrat to the U. S. Senate, to fill the vacancy in the term commencing March 4, 1853, caused by the failure of the legislature to elect a member.
  
• Re-elected from Alabama, 1858, serving from November 29, 1853 - January 21, 1861, when he withdrew.
  
• Confederate Senator, Alabama, 1861-1863.
  
• Diplomatic Agent of the Confederate States.
  
• Arrested and imprisoned in Fortress Monroe, 1865.
  
• After the war settled on his plantation, Jackson County, Alabama, and devoted himself to agricultural pursuits, and to the practice of law.

Died: January 3, 1882, at "Wildwood," near Gurley, Madison County, Alabama.
Buried: Maple Hill Cemetery, Huntsville, Alabama.

(Source: U.S. Congress. House. Biographical Directory Of The American Congress 1774-1949, 85th Cong., 2nd sess., H. Doc. 607 (Washington, D.C.: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1950), pp. 759-2057.)