Henry Clay is the first to receive…
June 1852 CE to 1863 CE
Though contemporaries credit Fillmore, Douglas, and Webster for their role in passing the Compromise of 1850, Clay is today widely regarded as the key figure in ending a major sectional crisis.
In December 1851, with his health declining, Clay had announced that he would resign from the Senate the following September.
On June 29, 1852, Clay dies of tuberculosis in Washington, D.C., at the age of seventy-five in his room at the National Hotel.
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