Later Years
In 1920 Clay was a founder of the Democratic Women's Club of Kentucky. That same year, at the 1920 Democratic National Convention, Laura Clay made American history as the first woman to be nominated for President by a major political party. In 1928 she actively supported the presidential candidacy of Al Smith and opposed Prohibition. In 1933, she served as Temporary Chairman of the Kentucky Convention to ratify the Twenty-First Amendment.
Clay slipped from the public life in her last decade. After her death in 1941, she was interred at Lexington Cemetery.
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