Thomas Clay McCreery (12 December 1816 – 10 July 1890) was a Democratic US Senator from Kentucky from 19 February 1868 to 4 March 1871 (succeeding James Guthrie and preceding John W. Stevenson) and from 4 March 1873 to 4 March 1879 (succeeding Willis Benson Machen and preceding John Stuart Williams).
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Thomas Clay McCreery was born in Owensboro, Kentucky in 1816, and he became a lawyer in Frankfort before serving as a Democratic presidential elector in 1852, 1856, 1860. He went on to serve in the US Senate from 1868 to 1871 and from 1873 to 1879, and he died in 1890.