Clay

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His dad Clay was an all-Pro linebacker for the Cleveland Browns, older brother Clay is a rookie linebacker for the Green Bay Packers, and his uncle, Bruce Matthews, is a former all-Pro offensive lineman who is in the Pro Football Hall of Fame.

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  1. Clay 1, Cassius Marcellus 1810-1903. American abolitionist and public official who was minister to Russia (1861-1862 and 1863-1869).
  2. Clay 2, Cassius Marcellus See Muhammad Ali.
  3. Clay, Henry Known as "the Great Compromiser.” 1777-1852. American politician who pushed the Missouri Compromise through the U.S. House of Representatives (1820) in an effort to reconcile free and slave states.
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  • His dad Clay was an all-Pro linebacker for the Cleveland Browns, older brother Clay is a rookie linebacker for the Green Bay Packers, and his uncle, Bruce Matthews, is a former all-Pro offensive lineman who is in the Pro Football Hall of Fame. —  statesmanjournal.com - Top Stories
  • Older brother Clay is a rookie linebacker for the Green Bay Packers. —  statesmanjournal.com - Top Stories
  • "Mark my words, Louisa Clay is at the bottom of the business. —  Good Luck
  • He read every book in the sparse college library; he talked to his college mates and his professors on every imaginable subject; he led his associates in the miniature parliament — the Franklin Debating Society — to which he belonged; he wrote prose and verse at an astonishing rate; he explored the country for miles around, making frequent pilgrimages to the birthplace of Henry Clay, which is the chief historical glory of Ashland, and to that Hanover Court House which was the scene of the oratorical triumph of Patrick Henry; he flirted with the pretty girls in the village, and even had two half-serious love affairs in rapid succession; he slept upon a hard mattress at night and imbibed more than the usual allotment of Greek, Latin, and mathematics in the daytime. —  The Life and Letters of Walter H Page
  • John Clay, and, for a while, Jack Smith. —  Buried Alive, The Biography of Janis Joplin
 

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