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Young senators – Part 2
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November 4, 2016
The Constitution of the United States in Article I, Section 3 states that: “No person shall be a Senator who shall not have attained to the Age of thirty Years ....”
Yet we have had four people in American history who were allowed to serve in the U.S. Senate even though they were younger than 30 years old.
The first underage senator was Henry Clay who served during his lifetime as a senator from Kentucky on four different occasions. His first senatorial experience was to fill the last few weeks of a vacant position.
Clay entered the Senate on Dec. 29, 1806, and left it on March 4, 1807. Yet he...
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