Eugene Herbert Clay (1881–1923) was the mayor of Marietta, Georgia, and one of the ringleaders in the lynching of Leo Frank. He was the son of Senator Alexander S. Clay. Clay attended the University of Georgia, Class of 1903, where he was a member of the Chi Phi Fraternity.
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“Whether I flie with angels, fall with dust,
Thy hands made both, and I am there:
Thy power and love, my love and trust
Make one place ev’rywhere.”
—George Herbert (1593–1633)
“Protoplasm, simple or nucleated, is the formal basis of all life. It is the clay of the potter: which, bake it and paint it as he will, remains clay, separated by artifice, and not by nature from the commonest brick or sun-dried clod.”
—Thomas Henry Huxley (1825–1895)