Clay family
The Clays were an influential nineteenth-century U.S. political and business dynasty.- Brutus Junius Clay, U.S. Congressman from Kentucky.
- Brutus J. Clay II, minister to Switzerland, son of Cassius Marcellus Clay
- Cassius Marcellus Clay , publisher, U.S. general, U.S. minister to Russia.
- Clement Claiborne Clay, U.S. Senator from Alabama.
- Clement Comer Clay, U.S. Senator from Alabama.
- Green Clay, member of the Virginia and Kentucky legislatures; Speaker of the Kentucky Senate.
- Green Clay Smith, U.S. Congressman from Kentucky and Territorial Governor of Montana.
- Henry Clay, U.S. Representative and Senator from Kentucky; Speaker of the House of Representatives; U.S. Secretary of State.
- Henry Clay, Jr., Lt. Col. in the Second Kentucky Regiment, killed in the Battle of Buena Vista.
- Henry "Harry" Clay, Arctic explorer; candidate for Kentucky House of Representatives.
- James Brown Clay, U.S. Chargé d'affaires at Lisbon, Portugal; U.S. Representative from Kentucky; member of the Peace Conference of 1861; commissioned to raise a regiment for the Confederate States of America.
- James Brown Clay, aide-de-camp to Major General John C. Breckinridge.
- John Morrison Clay, thoroughbred racer and breeder.
- Josephine Russell Clay, thoroughbred breeder and author.
- Laura Clay, a leader in the women's suffrage movement.
- Mary Barr Clay, president of the American Woman Suffrage Association.
- Matthew Clay, U.S. Representative from Virginia.
- Matthew Clay, member of the Alabama Senate.
- Nathaniel W. Watkins, Confederate Army brigadier general and Speaker of the Missouri House of Representatives.
- Nestor Clay, Texas pioneer; representative at the 1832 and 1833 Texas Conventions.
- Susan Clay Sawitzky, U.S. poet.
- Tacitus Thomas Clay, mayor of Independence, Texas; Confederate army officer.
- Thomas Clay, member of the first Kentucky Constitutional Convention.
- Thomas C. McCreery, U.S. Senator from Kentucky.
- Thomas Hart Clay, U.S. minister to Nicaragua and Honduras.
- Thomas Jacob Clay Second Lieutenant, U.S. Army, who participated in the second capture of Geronimo.
- William Claude Clay member of 2677th Office of Strategic Services Regiment and 2671st Special Reconnaissance Battalion of the Office of Strategic Services, won various medals of valor.
