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Show Clay Ineligible to Senate It has been claimed for many years that Henry Clay was the only man in history who served In the United States senate before he was thirty years of age. He was appointed to fill the unexpired term of John Adair, who resigned. Clay entered upon his duties on November 19, 1800, and was not thirty until the April following, but he kept his mouth shut and apparently ap-parently no one else thought of questioning ques-tioning his age. Clay was later secretary sec-retary of state under John Quincy Adams and twice defeated for the Presidency by Andrew Jackson In 1S32 and by James K. Polk in 1S44. |