Henry Clay
Henry Clay, born in 1777, was a lawyer, politician and skilled orator who represented the state of Kentucky in the United States Senate and House of Representatives. During the War of 1812, he was an ardent War Hawk, who later ran for President after the War. When he lost the bid, he threw his support to John Quincy Adams, and was then given the position of Secretary of State. Andrew Jackson's supporters were furious about this "Secret Meeting," and called it a Corrupt Bargain. Clay was a proponent of the American System, and was the first to call it such. He argued for increase in Tariffs, a stronger National Bank, and the building of Infrastructure in the country. Henry Clay also opposed the idea of Manifest Destiny and the Mexican-American War which was a product of that idea. He earned the nickname "The Great Pacificator," because he was always one of the instrumental persons creating the compromise. He was Instrumental in creating the Missouri Compromise of 1820, which allowed Missouri to enter the country as a slave state while Maine would enter as a free state. The Compromise also forbade slavery from occurring in the Louisiana Territory north of the Missouri Territory.