Editing Henry Clay (section)

===Monuments and memorials===
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[[File:Ashland HC.JPG|thumb|upright=1.2|Clay's estate, [[Ashland (Henry Clay home)|Ashland]], in [[Lexington, Kentucky]]]]

Many monuments, memorials, and even high schools have been erected and named in honor of Clay. Sixteen counties, one each in [[Clay County, Alabama|Alabama]], [[Clay County, Florida|Florida]], [[Clay County, Georgia|Georgia]], [[Clay County, Illinois|Illinois]], [[Clay County, Indiana|Indiana]], [[Clay County, Kansas|Kansas]], [[Clay County, Kentucky|Kentucky]], [[Clay County, Minnesota|Minnesota]], [[Clay County, Mississippi|Mississippi]], [[Clay County, Missouri|Missouri]], [[Clay County, Nebraska|Nebraska]], [[Clay County, North Carolina|North Carolina]], [[Clay County, South Dakota|South Dakota]], [[Clay County, Tennessee|Tennessee]], [[Clay County, Texas|Texas]], and [[Clay County, West Virginia|West Virginia]], are named for Clay. Communities named for Clay include [[Clay, Kentucky]], [[Claysville, Alabama]] and [[Claysville, Pennsylvania]]. The [[United States Navy]] named a submarine, the {{USS|Henry Clay|SSBN-625|6}}, in his honor. Several statues honor Clay, including the [[Henry Clay Monument]] in [[Pottsville, Pennsylvania]], and [[Henry Clay (Niehaus)|one of Kentucky's two statues]] in the [[National Statuary Hall Collection]]. Clay's estate of [[Ashland (Henry Clay estate)|Ashland]] is a [[National Historic Landmark]]. The [[Decatur House]], Clay's home in Washington, D.C. during his tenure as secretary of state, is also a National Historic Landmark.  Due to his involvement in the American Colonization Society, a town in the newly formed Liberia in West Africa was named Clay-Ashland after Henry Clay and to where the freed enslaved people from Kentucky emigrated. Clay is also one of the "famous five" senators honored with their portraits in the [[United States Senate Reception Room|Senate Reception Room]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.senate.gov/artandhistory/history/common/briefing/Famous_Five_Seven.htm|title=The 'Famous Five'|date=March 12, 1959|publisher=United States Senate|access-date=January 23, 2019}}</ref>
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|quote    =  "He loved his country partly because it was his own country, but mostly because it was a free country." — Lincoln's Eulogy for Henry Clay – July 6, 1852<ref>{{cite web |title=Eulogy on Henry Clay |url= https://quod.lib.umich.edu/l/lincoln/lincoln2/1:193?rgn=div1;view=fulltext|website=Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln |access-date= September 27, 2023 }}</ref>

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