What is Lacy Clay?
{{Infobox officeholder |name = Lacy Clay |image = Wm Lacy Clay, official portrait, 116th Congress.jpg |state = [[Missouri]] |district = {{ushr|MO|1|1st}} |term_start = January 3, 2001 |term_end = January 3, 2021 |predecessor = [[Bill Clay]] |successor = [[Cori Bush]] |state_senate1 = Missouri |district1 = 4th |term_start1 = September 1991 |term_end1 = January 2001 |predecessor1 = John Bass |successor1 = [[Pat Dougherty]] |state_house2 = Missouri |district2 = 59th |term_start2 = November 1983 |term_end2 = September 1991 |predecessor2 = Nat Rivers |successor2 = Frank Williamson |birth_name = William Lacy Clay Jr. |birth_date = {{birth date and age|1956|7|27}} |birth_place = [[St. Louis]], [[Missouri]], U.S. |death_date = |death_place = |party = [[Democratic Party (United States)|Democratic]] |spouse = {{marriage|Ivie Lewellen|1992|2011|end=div}} |relatives = [[Bill Clay]] (Father) |education = [[University of Maryland, College Park]] ([[Bachelor of Arts|BA]]) |website = [https://lacyclay.house.gov/ House website] }} '''William Lacy Clay Jr.''' (born July 27, 1956) is an American politician. He was the [[United States House of Representatives|U.S. Representative]] from {{ushr|Missouri|1|}} from 2001 to 2021. He is a member of the [[Democratic Party (United States)|Democratic Party]]. On August 4, 2020, he lost the Democratic primary to serve for an 11th term to community activist and progressive Democrat [[Cori Bush]].<ref>{{cite news | url=https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/05/us/politics/cori-bush-missouri-william-lacy-clay.html | title=Cori Bush Defeats William Lacy Clay in a Show of Progressive Might | work=The New York Times | date=5 August 2020 | last1=Fandos | first1=Nicholas }}</ref> ==References== {{reflist}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Clay, Lacy}} [[Category:1956 births]] [[Category:Living people]] [[Category:United States representatives from Missouri]] [[Category:Politicians from St. Louis, Missouri]]