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Brutus Junius Clay (Representative)

b. 1808-07-01 d. 1878-10-11

Bourbon County, Kentucky farmer and politician. Married to Amelia McClanahan Field Clay. Father of Martha Clay, Brutus Junius Clay, Christopher Field Clay, Brutus Junius Clay, Green Clay, and Ezekiel Field Clay. Married to Ann Marie Field Clay. Father of Cassius Marcellus Clay, Jr. Graduated from Centre College in Boyle County, Kentucky. Member of the House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of Kentucky from Bourbon County in 1840. Farmer in Bourbon County in 1850. Owned eighty-eight enslaved persons in Bourbon County in 1850. President of the Kentucky Agricultural Association from 1853 to 1861. Farmer in Bourbon County in 1860. Member of the House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of Kentucky from Bourbon County in 1860. Member of the House of Representatives of the United States from the Seventh Congressional District of Kentucky from 1863 to 1865.

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White

Bibliography

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Bourbon County, District 1, p. 303B.

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Bourbon County, District 1, p. 520-1.

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Bourbon County, Eastern Division, p. 623.

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Bourbon County, Eastern Division, p. 121B-122B.

Charles Lanman, Biographical Annals of the Civil Government of the United States (Washington: J. M. Morrison, 1887), 97.

“Clay, Brutus Junius,” The Kentucky Encyclopedia, ed. John E. Kleber (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1992), 199.

“Clay, Brutus Junius,” Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, accessed December 16, 2016, http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=C000479.

Zachariah Frederick Smith, et al., The Clay Family, 14, (J. P. Morton and Company, 1899), pp. 120-121.

“Brutus Junius Clay (1808-1878),” Find A Grave, Memorial 15490047, accessed December 16, 2016, http://www.findagrave.com/memorial/15490047.

Citation

Clay, Brutus Junius. Accessed via the Civil War Governors of Kentucky Digital Documentary Edition, https://discovery.civilwargovernors.org/document/S32202677 (November 12, 2026).

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