1837, the United States suffered a financial crisis brought on by speculative fever. This crisis caused a run on the Bank of the State of Alabama. Clay ordered the bank to provide a detailed financial report, but it could not do so. United States Senate After the election by the state legislature, Clay served in the United States Senate from June 19, 1837, until his resignation on November 15, 1841. In the year after the end of the Civil War, Clement died of natural causes in September 1866, aged 76. His wife Susanna had died earlier the same year. Notes References External links The Political Graveyard 1789 births 1866 deaths People from Halifax County, Virginia Clay family Jacksonian members of the United States House of Representatives from Alabama Democratic Party United States senators from Alabama Democratic Party governors of Alabama Members of the Alabama Territorial Legislature Democratic Party members of the Alabama House of Representatives Chief Justices of the Supreme Court of Alabama Alabama state court judges 19th-century American judges 19th-century American politicians