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William Lacy Clay, Jr. (born July 27, 1956), American politician, was elected as a Democratic member of the United States House of Representatives in 2000 to represent the First Congressional District of Missouri. Born in Saint Louis, Missouri, his family moved to Washington D.C., when his father William Lacy Clay, Sr. was elected to the House of Representatives, holding the same seat now occupied by his son, from 1969 to 2001. Clay, Jr. attended the University of Maryland and was elected to the Missouri House of Representatives in 1983, the same year that he graduated. While serving, he completed a Master's degree from Harvard's University 's School of Government. In 1991 he was elected to the Missouri State Senate . During his seventeen years in the State legislature, he worked to end racial and gender discrimination. In 2000, Clay successfully ran for the Congressional seat occupied by his father for thirty years. He currently serves on the Committee on Government Reform . He is a member of the Congressional Black CaucusThe Congressional Black Caucus is an organization representing African American members of the Congress of the United States. Its chair as of 2003 is Representative Elijah Cummings of Maryland. The Caucus was founded in January 1969, by a group of black m.
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