Virginia Clay-Clopton

Political hostess and activist in Alabama and Washington, DC

She took on different responsibilities after the Civil War. As the wife of US Senator Clement Claiborne Clay from Alabama, she was part of a group of young southerners who boarded together in the capital in particular hotels.

In the immediate postwar period, she worked to gain her husband's freedom from imprisonment at Fort Monroe, where Jefferson Davis, former president of the Confederacy, was also held.

In the late 19th century, Clay-Copton became an activist in the United Daughters of the Confederacy.

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