Henry Clay, Abraham Lincoln, and an alternate spelling of Kentucky are.

Toby Gibbs has all of that in tonight's Look at this week in Kentucky History.

Lexington's Henry Clay was sworn in as a member of the U.S. House of Representatives on March 4th, 1811.

It didn't take long for him to move up the ranks, even though he was a freshman.

He became speaker of the House the same day Clay became secretary of state on March 5th, 1825.

After his appointment by President John Quincy Adams this week, we observed both of Abraham Lincoln's presidential inaugurations.

His first was March 4th, 1861.

His second was March 4th, 1865.

Lexington received its first telegraph message on March 6th, 1848.

It was a message from Louisville, sent after the building of the first telegraph line.

Earlier in the year, the Kentucky General Assembly chartered the Louisville and Nashville Railroad, often called the Allen Allentown on March 5th, 1850.

It became an important union supply route during the Civil War.

Albert B Fall, born in Frankfort, became Secretary of the Interior on March 5th, 1921.

It didn't end well.

Fall was a central figure in the scheme to allow oil companies to drill on public land in exchange for bribes.

The Teapot Dome scandal Fall went to prison.

He was the first Cabinet secretary to do jail time.

The word Kentucky ended with the letter E instead of a Y until March seven, 1789, when the Virginia General Assembly changed it.

Kentucky was part of Virginia at the time.

And that's a look back at this week in Kentucky history.

I'm Toby Gibbs.