Joseph Clay was a member of the United States House of Representatives

United States House of Representatives

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 from Pennsylvania

Pennsylvania

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Joseph Clay was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

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. He was elected as a Democratic-Republican to the Eighth

8th United States Congress

- Senate :* President: Aaron Burr * President pro tempore: John Brown , October 17, 1803 – February 26, 1804** Jesse Franklin , March 10, 1804 – November 4, 1804** Joseph Anderson , January 15, 1805 – December 1, 1805- House of Representatives :...

, Ninth

9th United States Congress

- Senate :* President: George Clinton * President pro tempore: Samuel Smith - House of Representatives :* Speaker: Nathaniel Macon -Members:This list is arranged by chamber, then by state...

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10th United States Congress

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 Congresses, and served until his resignation after March 28, 1808. He was also engaged in banking. Clay served as chairman of the United States House Committee on Ways and Means

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 during the Ninth Congress. He was one of the managers appointed by the House of Representatives in 1804 to conduct the impeachment

Impeachment

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 proceedings against John Pickering

John Pickering (judge)

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, judge of the United States District Court for the District of New Hampshire

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He became cashier of the Farmers & Mechanics’ Bank of Philadelphia, and died in Philadelphia in 1811. Interment in Christ Church Burying Ground.

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