Henry Clay 1835-1852 founding father art Hayes 1877 — a presidential

Hayes 1877 — a presidential portrait from the year the Compromise seated him in office and pulled the last federal troops from the South

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his face the founding republic's most reproduced icon

the states' rights firebrand recast as gentleman antiquity

Henry Clay 1835-1852 founding father art Hayes 1877 — a presidentialHenry Clay 1835 1852 a portrait of the Great Compromiser across the years he spent stitching the Union together with words alone, the Kentucky senator whose oratory bent the Whig century around the question of whether the republic could hold. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress, the National Archives, regional historical societies, and the lithographic publishers (Currier &