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Clement C. Clay

Clement Comer Clay (December 17 1789September 7 1866) was the Democratic Governor of the U.S. state of Alabama from 1835 to 1837. He resigned when he was appointed to the United States Senate, where he served from June 19 1837 until his resignation on November 15 1841.

In 1836, Governor Clay signed a legislative act which chartered the third oldest Jesuit college in the United States, Spring Hill College in Mobile, Alabama, and gave it "full power to grant or confer such degree or degrees in the arts and sciences, or in any art or science as are usually granted or conferred by other seminaries of learning in the United States."


Preceded by:
John Gayle
Governor of Alabama
1835–1837
Succeeded by:
Hugh McVay
Preceded by:
John McKinley
U.S. Senator from Alabama
1837–1841
Succeeded by:
Arthur P. Bagby
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