Clement Claiborne Clay

Clement Clay
Confederate States Senator
from Alabama
In office
February 18, 1862 – February 17, 1864
Preceded byConstituency established
Succeeded byRichard Walker
United States Senator
from Alabama
In office
November 29, 1853 – January 21, 1861
Preceded byJeremiah Clemens
Succeeded byWillard Warner
Personal details
Born
Clement Claiborne Clay

(1816-12-13)December 13, 1816
Huntsville, Alabama, US
DiedJanuary 3, 1882(1882-01-03) (aged 65)
Gurley, Alabama, US
Political partyDemocratic
SpouseVirginia Tunstall
Alma materUniversity of Alabama, Tuscaloosa
University of Virginia

Clement Claiborne Clay (December 13, 1816 – January 3, 1882), also known as C. C. Clay Jr., was a United States Senator (Democrat) from the state of Alabama from 1853 to 1861, and a Confederate States senator from Alabama from 1862 to 1864. His portrait appeared on the Confederate one-dollar note (4th issue and later).

He and his father, who served as a governor of Alabama and was also a U.S. senator, were among the state's most prominent enslavers, according to the Washington Post. Together the two men enslaved 87 people on four Alabama plantations as recorded in the 1860 census.[1]

  1. ^ Weil, Julie Zauzmer (October 22, 2022). "A slaveholding senator, an 1879 wedding and a Black family's mystery". Washington Post. Retrieved April 27, 2024.