Joseph Clay

Joseph Clay ( born July 24, 1769 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, † August 27, 1811 ) was an American politician. Between 1803 and 1808 he represented the State of Pennsylvania in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

About the youth and education of Joseph Clay is in the sources nothing survived. He joined, founded by Thomas Jefferson Democratic- Republican Party. In the congressional elections of 1802 he was the first electoral district of Pennsylvania in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he became the successor of William Jones on March 4, 1803. After two re- elections he could remain until his resignation on March 28, 1808 in Congress. During this time, the territory of the United States has been considerably enlarged in 1803 by the investments made by President Jefferson Louisiana Purchase. 1804, the Twelfth Amendment to the Constitution was ratified.

That same year, Clay was one of the congressmen who were entrusted with the implementation of a impeachment of federal judge John Pickering. Between 1805 and 1807, he acted as Chairman of the Committee on Ways and Means. After his time in the U.S. House of Representatives, he worked as a cashier for the Farmers & Mechanics' Bank of Philadelphia. He died on 27 August 1811. His son John ( 1808-1885 ) was a diplomat, an American ambassador in Peru.