Eugene Herbert Clay
| Eugene Herbert Clay | |
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| File:Eugene Herbert Clay.jpg | |
| Mayor of Marietta, Georgia | |
| In office 1911–1912 |
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| Personal details | |
| Born | October 3, 1881 Marietta, Georgia |
| Died | June 22, 1923 (aged 41) Marietta, Georgia |
| Nationality | American |
| Children | Eugene Herbert Clay, Jr. |
| Parents | Senator Alexander S. Clay and Frances (White) Clay |
| Residence | Marietta, Georgia[1] |
| Alma mater | University of Georgia, Mercer University |
Eugene Herbert Clay (October 3, 1881–June 22, 1923) was the mayor of Marietta, Georgia, and one of the ringleaders in the lynching of Leo Frank.[2][3]
He was born in Marietta, Georgia to Senator Alexander S. Clay and Frances (White) Clay.[1][4] Clay attended the University of Georgia and the Mercer University, graduating in from the latter with an LL.B.[1][4] He was a member of the Chi Phi Fraternity.[1][4]
He served as the mayor of Marietta, Georgia from 1911 to 1912.[1] He was twice elected Solicitor General of the Blue Ridge Circuit and served on the State Democratic Committee.[1] In 1915, he helped plan the lynching of Leo Frank, a Jewish-American factory superintendent whose murder conviction and extrajudicial hanging in 1915 by a lynch mob drew attention to questions of antisemitism in the United States.[2] He married Virginia Hudson of Pocahontas, Virginia on December 27, 1919.[1] He also had one son, Eugene Herbert Clay, Jr., by a prior marriage.[1] In the fall of 1920, he was elected to the Georgia Senate.[1] He was president of the Georgia Senate as of 1922.[1] He died in Marietta, Georgia.[4]
Notes
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 1.6 1.7 1.8 1.9 Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain. - ↑ 2.0 2.1 Oney, Steve And the Dead Shall Rise: The Murder of Mary Phagan and the Lynching of Leo Frank
- ↑ Alphin, Elaine Marie Unspeakable Crime: The Prosecution and Persecution of Leo Frank
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 4.3 Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
