Huntsville native Clement Claiborne Clay served in the Alabama House of Representatives and the U.S. Senate prior to the outbreak of the Civil War. During the conflict, he worked as a Confederate propagandist in Canada and was briefly implicated in the plot to assassinate Pres. Abraham Lincoln.
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