Rep. Matthew Clay
Former Representative for Virginia
Clay was the representative for Virginia and was a Republican. He served from 1815 to 1817.
He was previously the representative for Virginia’s 14th congressional district as a Republican from 1811 to 1813; the representative for Virginia’s 14th congressional district as a Republican from 1807 to 1811; the representative for Virginia’s 14th congressional district as a Republican from 1805 to 1807; the representative for Virginia’s 14th congressional district as a Republican from 1803 to 1805; the representative for Virginia’s 6th congressional district as a Republican from 1801 to 1803; the representative for Virginia’s 6th congressional district as a Republican from 1799 to 1801; and the representative for Virginia’s 6th congressional district as a Republican from 1797 to 1799.
Legislators who enslaved Black people
Primary Sources
The information on this page is originally sourced from a variety of materials, including:
- unitedstates/congress-legislators, a community project gathering congressional information
- United States Congressional Roll Call Voting Records, 1789-1990 by Howard L. Rosenthal and Keith T. Poole.
- Martis’s “The Historical Atlas of Political Parties in the United States Congress”, via Keith Poole’s roll call votes data set, for political party affiliation for Members of Congress from 1789 through about year 2000
