Prior to the Civil War the Clay family of Kentucky was one of the nation’s most prominent political families, the most well-known of which was congressman, senator, Speaker of the House and Secretary of State Henry Clay. Today we tell not his story, but the story of another Clay, abolitionist Cassius Marcellus Clay, who also was the namesake of another well-known Kentucky native, the boxer who dropped that name for the name Mohammed Ali.
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