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CLAY, Brutus Junius, a Representative from Kentucky; born in Richmond, Madison County, Ky., July 1,
1808; attended the common schools and was graduated from Centre College, Danville, Ky.; engaged
in agricultural pursuits and stock raising; moved to Bourbon County in 1837 and continued former
pursuits; member of State house of representatives in 1840; elected president of Bourbon County
Agricultural Association in 1840 and served thirty years; president of the Kentucky Agricultural
Association 1853-1861; again a member of the State house of representatives in 1860; elected as a
Unionist to the Thirty-eighth Congress (March 4, 1863-March 3, 1865); chairman, Committee on
Agriculture (Thirty-eighth Congress); was not a candidate for reelection; resumed former pursuits;
died near Paris, Ky., October 11, 1878; interment in the family burial ground at “Auvergne,” near
Paris, Ky.
BibliographyClay, Brutus Junius. Letters from the
Correspondence of Brutus J. Clay, 1808-1878. Edited with notes by Cassius M. Clay.
[Paris, Ky.]: N.p., 1958; Hood, James Larry. “The Union and Slavery: Congressman Brutus J. Clay
of the Bluegrass.” Register of the Kentucky Historical Society 75 (July 1977):
214-21.
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