This is the story of Cassius Marcellus Clay — not ... and the United States minister to Russia under Presidents Lincoln and Johnson, General Clay was as well known for his private activities ...

Cash resigned his commission and returned to Russia where he remained until 1869. The parallels between Cassius Marcellus Clay the emancipationist and the boxing heavyweight champion of the world ...

Cassius Marcellus Clay (1810-1903 ... he spent most of that time as Abraham Lincoln's ambassador to Russia. Clay urged Lincoln to issue the Emancipation Proclamation, and he dreamed of one ...

Clay returned to Russia and served there until 1869 ... Nine years after his death, Herman Heaton Clay — Muhammad Ali’s grandfather — named his son Cassius Marcellus Clay in tribute to the ...

Cassius Marcellus Clay, as Ali often shouted ... appointed minister (what we now call ambassador) to Russia, was among the first and most relentless to urge Lincoln to act to end slavery.

So who was the original Cassius Clay? The simple answer is that he was ... House of Representatives and was appointed ambassador to Russia by Abraham Lincoln. But that's not the whole story.

CAMBRIDGE — Caden Stoldt will speak on Cassius Marcellus Clay at the meeting of the Southeastern ... was a fervent abolitionist and Lincoln's ambassador to Russia. The meeting will be at 6: ...

In the June 3, 1845, issue of Cassius Marcellus Clay’s The True American a diatribe, written by “a Whig” warned all slaveowners to be vigilant for periodicals criticizing slavery.

Images: AP/Everett Collection Composite: Mark Kelly Start with a towering figure who contributed significantly to the cause of liberation and union, Cassius Marcellus Clay. Born in 1810 ...

Muhammad Ali, born Cassius Marcellus Clay, emerged from humble beginnings in Louisville, Kentucky, where he began boxing at the age of 12. His journey to greatness began when he won a gold medal ...