Clay Henry

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Clay

, Henry Known as "the Great Compromiser." 1777-1852.

American politician who pushed the Missouri Compromise through the US House of Representatives (1820) in an effort to reconcile free and slave states.

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Mattingly is joined on the program by Clay Henry, the Hawgs Illustrated publisher and son of Orville Henry, who was Boswell to the Razorback program for decades as sports editor of the Arkansas Gazette and a columnist for the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette.

Eady: Off to Atlanta, heart remains here

WEIRD NEWS p7 ...a remote border town in Texas has elected three successive generations of goats as mayor, starting with Clay Henry in the 1980s, who was known to drink as many as 40 beers a day.

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But at least the accused was spared the lynch mob who wanted justice when they heard what happened to Mayor Clay Henry III - a beer-drinking goat.