Brutus Junius Clay II (February 20, 1847 – June 2, 1932) was an American businessman, political figure and diplomat.
[1] He received a civil engineering degree from the University of Michigan in 1868,[2] and worked as a wholesale and retail grocer.
He lived at a Richmond, Kentucky home he called Linwood,[3] and was also the owner and operator of lumber mills, stone, kaolin and potters clay quarries, gas and oil wells, and other businesses.
In addition, he owned farms in Illinois and Kentucky, and a Mississippi cotton plantation.
[4] Active in politics as a Republican, In 1897 he was offered appointment as Minister to Argentina by President William McKinley, but declined.