James W. Clay, Jr. is a former Democratic member of the

Pennsylvania House of Representatives The Pennsylvania House of Representatives is the lower house of the bicameral Pennsylvania General Assembly, the legislature of the U.S. state of Pennsylvania. There are 203 members, elected for two-year terms from single member districts. It ...

, who represented the 179th legislative district from 2013 to 2014. He was elected in 2012 after his predecessor, Tony Payton, was removed from the ballot due to a failure to collect the proper number of signature, leaving him as the only candidate remaining. Mr. Clay frequently goes by the nickname "Scoot" in his personal life. He is a graduate of

Frankford High School Frankford High School is a public high school in the School District of Philadelphia. It is located at Oxford Avenue and Wakeling Street in the Frankford section of Northeast Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Frankford was founded in 1910 as an annex ...

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Clay, James Democratic Party members of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives Living people African-American state legislators in Pennsylvania Politicians from Philadelphia Year of birth missing (living people) 21st-century African-American politicians