
who died age 75, on 30-06-1852. His mother was Sara Frances, born White Clay (1861–1940). He had four brothers: Eugene Herbert Clay (1881–1923), Alexander Stephens Clay (1886–1934), Frank Butner Clay (1888-1920) and Ryburn Glover Clay (1891-1955). Brother Major Frank Butner Clay,
was a West Point graduated. Lucius Clay graduated from West Point in 1918 and held various civil and military engineering posts during the 1920s and 1930s, including teaching at West Point, directing the construction of dams and civilian airports, and by 1942 rising to the position of the youngest Brigadier General in the Army. Lucius Jr. was an American officer and military governor of the United States Army known for his administration of Germany immediately after World War II. Clay did not see actual combat in WWII, but was awarded the Legion of Merit
in 1942, theDistinquished Service Medal
in 1944, and received the Bronze Star
for his action in stabilizing the French harbor of Cherbourg,
critical to the flow of war materiel. Clay was deputy to General Dwight “Ike” Eisenhower
1945. Lucius Clay graduated from West Point in 1918 and held various civil and military engineering posts during the 1920’s and 1930’s, including teaching at West Point, directing the construction of dams and civilian airports. Abandoned by German forces immediately after D-Day and critical to the flow of war material, helping to direct the procurement and production of war supplies and earning a reputation as a skilled administrator who could get things done. Clay was responseble for commuting the death sentences, among many other, for convicted Nazi war criminals Erwin Metz and his superior, Hauptmann Ludwig Merz,
to only five years imprisonment. Metz and Merz were commanders of the infamous Berga, Thuringia slave labor camp in which 350 U.S. soldiers were beaten, tortured, starved, and forced to work for the German government during World War II. The soldiers were singled out for looking or sounding Jewish. At least 70 U.S. soldiers died in the camp or on a later forced death march. Erwin Metz and Hauptmann Ludwig Merz, were tried for war crimes and initially sentenced to die by hanging. But the U.S. government commuted their death sentences in 1948, and both men were eventually set free in the 1950s. He also reduced the sentence of Ilse Koch, “the Beast of Buchenwald”,











Death and burial ground of Clay, Lucius DuBignon Sr “The Kaiser”..


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