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Which position did Clement Comer Clay hold between Oct 1834 and Nov 1834?
Clement Comer Clay Clement Comer Clay ( December 17 , 1789 – September 6 , 1866 ) was the eighth Governor of the U.S . state of Alabama from 1835 to 1837 . An attorney , judge and politician , he also was elected to the state legislature , as well as to the House of Representatives and the US Senate . Early years . Clay was born in Halifax County , Virginia , the son of Rebecca ( Comer ) and William Clay , an officer in the American Revolutionary War , who moved to Grainger County , Tennessee . Clay attended the local schools and graduated from East Tennessee College in 1807 . He was admitted to the bar in 1809 and moved to Huntsville , Alabama , where he began a law practice in 1811 . Marriage and family . Clay married Susannah Claiborne Withers on April 4 , 1815 . They had three sons : Clement Claiborne Clay , John Withers Clay , and Hugh Lawson Clay . Alabama House of Representatives . Clay served in the Alabama Territorial Legislature in 1817–1818 . He was a state court judge and served in the Alabama House of Representatives . In 1828 he was elected to the U.S . House of Representatives , serving from March 4 , 1829 and through re-elections until March 3 , 1835 , when he started as governor of Alabama . Governor of Alabama . In 1835 Clay was elected Governor . Clays term as governor ended early when he was appointed by the state legislature to the United States Senate in 1837 ( this was before popular election of senators ) . Spring Hill College . In 1836 , Governor Clay signed a legislative act which chartered Spring Hill College in Mobile , Alabama , the third oldest Jesuit college in the United States . The charter gave it full power to grant or confer such degree or degrees in the arts and sciences , or in any art or science as are usually granted or conferred by other seminaries of learning in the United States . The college resulted from the strong French Catholic traditions in the city , founded as a French colony . Creek War of 1836 . Clay’s term in office was dominated by the Creek War of 1836 arising from resistance to Indian Removal , which had taken place in the Southeast since 1830 . During Clay’s administration , the United States Army removed the Creek Indians from Southeastern Alabama under the terms of the 1832 Treaty of Cusseta . The Creek were relocated to the Indian Territory ( now Oklahoma ) west of the Mississippi . Confrontations between Indians and white settlers occurred . Panic of 1837 . During the Panic of 1837 , the United States suffered a financial crisis brought on by speculative fever . This crisis caused a run on the Bank of the State of Alabama . Clay ordered the bank to provide a detailed report of its finances , but it was unable to do so . United States Senate . After election by the state legislature , Clay served in the United States Senate from June 19 , 1837 until his resignation on November 15 , 1841 . In the year after the end of the Civil War , Clement died of natural causes in September 1866 , aged 76 . His wife Susanna had died earlier the same year . External links . - The Political Graveyard