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Henry Clay
1777-04-12 – 1852-06-29
Kentucky senator known as the "Great Compromiser", engineered the Missouri Compromise and packaged the Compromise of 1850.
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Henry Clay dominated early sectional bargaining, pairing admissions, drawing geographic lines, and urging Americans to prize Union over purity. His Compromise of 1850 omnibus initially failed; Stephen Douglas split it into law. Clay embodied elite faith that parliamentary deals could indefinitely postpone slavery's reckoning.